AirDisk
Hello,
I have multiple mac computers (Macbook pro, a <acbook, and an imac) set up on a wireless network through an airport extreme. Each mac has lots of music, movies and pictures that I'd like all in one place so I bought a 2TB hard drive and hooked it up to the extreme. Now, I can figure out how to get my itunes and iphoto (actually aperture) stuff on there and how to share it wirelessly (if someone knows of a concise, easy to follow guide for both or either and wants to point me in the right direction that would be great). What I can't figure out is the backup situation. Basically, I'd like it so that when I hook up my digital camera or download a movie or some music with one computer for it all to go onto that hard drive. Each computer would have access and if you clicked on my latest music download on any computer it would start playing on that computer. Right now I back up with another partitioned hard drive with a usb cable. Each computer has it's own backup on it's own partition. Really the wifi hard drive or airdisk is about consolidation but it seems to lose security. Should I keep all of the music, movies and pictures on my macbook pro hard drive as well and then back that up or is there a better way? What would be nice is if I could backup the wifi hard drive somehow on another hard drive (wireless or not, I don't care - I've read about the issues with wireless time machine backups). Thanks for the help.
I have multiple mac computers (Macbook pro, a <acbook, and an imac) set up on a wireless network through an airport extreme. Each mac has lots of music, movies and pictures that I'd like all in one place so I bought a 2TB hard drive and hooked it up to the extreme. Now, I can figure out how to get my itunes and iphoto (actually aperture) stuff on there and how to share it wirelessly (if someone knows of a concise, easy to follow guide for both or either and wants to point me in the right direction that would be great). What I can't figure out is the backup situation. Basically, I'd like it so that when I hook up my digital camera or download a movie or some music with one computer for it all to go onto that hard drive. Each computer would have access and if you clicked on my latest music download on any computer it would start playing on that computer. Right now I back up with another partitioned hard drive with a usb cable. Each computer has it's own backup on it's own partition. Really the wifi hard drive or airdisk is about consolidation but it seems to lose security. Should I keep all of the music, movies and pictures on my macbook pro hard drive as well and then back that up or is there a better way? What would be nice is if I could backup the wifi hard drive somehow on another hard drive (wireless or not, I don't care - I've read about the issues with wireless time machine backups). Thanks for the help.
Macbook Pro
