Re: [Leo] Time Machine backing drive on other Mac?

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nixen
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said by joetaxpayer:

I did Google, and I bought "Mac OS X Leopard, the missing manual" to help avoid too many stupid questions.

The latest Mac (G4 MDD) is running Leopard, my older faithful Mac is still Panther. Can the Leopard machine back up drives from the Panther one?

I can see each machine from the other, in the finder and using AAsync, but not when I open Time Machine. If not, I suppose I can sync the files I want over to the Leopard machine and let it TM from there, just curious if this is a TM feature I am not seeing.
Joe

You'd need to do a couple things to make it work:
* Set up the leopard system to offer shares via AFP
* Set up a virtual disk/volume within that share.
* Configure your local copy of TimeMachine to allow the use of a network-presented hard drive
* Reboot your box for those settings to take effect
* Mount the AFP-provided virtual disk image on your system
* Tell TimeMachine to use that volume

You're basically looking to do something similar to this.

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