Old Mac Mini use?

I'd like to use an old Mac Mini (1.1 running 10.6.8) as a host for my LAN Time Capsule drives. Does anyone know if this older OS version will work for backup/restore of specific files from a new system?

I don't think a full system restore to say the latest (as of this question) would work, but if you can let me know that would be great .

Thanks.

Posted on Jan 2, 2020 6:50 PM

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Jan 2, 2020 10:34 PM in response to BillBingham2

Hello,

With macOS 10.6 Snow Leopard you will need to acquire Snow Leopard Server which has support for serving a Time Machine share.

https://www.apple.com/hk/en/server/macosx/index.html

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