Backing up a Mac to a home NAS
jamesra
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Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
The story:
After 3 major hardware failures in 2 years (and one major and one minor data loss), my wife has thrown over the PC and acquired a Macbook pro. After the first data loss, I got a Dlink network drive enclosure, which now serves as our backup array, and which has been working fine in our pre-Mac Linux and PC environment. But with the introduction of the Mac, I'm at a bit of a loss; I want to backup the basics (her documents, pictures and iTunes, as well as mine) without turning the whole thing over to the control of the Mac. And I don't know how.
I'm sure there is some painfully straightforward way of doing this, but I'm pretty ignorant of how macs operate, so I don't even know what other data to include or what questions I should be asking. Any help is greatly appreciated.
After 3 major hardware failures in 2 years (and one major and one minor data loss), my wife has thrown over the PC and acquired a Macbook pro. After the first data loss, I got a Dlink network drive enclosure, which now serves as our backup array, and which has been working fine in our pre-Mac Linux and PC environment. But with the introduction of the Mac, I'm at a bit of a loss; I want to backup the basics (her documents, pictures and iTunes, as well as mine) without turning the whole thing over to the control of the Mac. And I don't know how.
I'm sure there is some painfully straightforward way of doing this, but I'm pretty ignorant of how macs operate, so I don't even know what other data to include or what questions I should be asking. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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