if I have two laptops connected to a single wireless hard drive (i.e. Time Capsule), what happens when one laptop wants to go on a trip and the other one needs to stay home? I'm afraid I know the answer, but I'm hoping Apple has a great solution to my problem.
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
What if this little piggy goes to market but this little piggy stays home?
The computer on a trip will do snapshot backups on the hard drive that will then be incorporated into the Time Machine backup once you get it back home. See
OS X Lion- About Time Machine's "local snapshots" on portable Macs
Open the Terminal in the Utilities folder and enter or paste the appropriate command line. Press RETURN and enter your admin password when prompted. It will not be echoed.
To turn them ON: sudo tmutil enablelocal
To turn them OFF: sudo tmutil disablelocal
Note that turning them OFF will also delete all existing snapshots.
What if this little piggy goes to market but this little piggy stays home?
The computer on a trip will do snapshot backups on the hard drive that will then be incorporated into the Time Machine backup once you get it back home. See
OS X Lion- About Time Machine's "local snapshots" on portable Macs
Open the Terminal in the Utilities folder and enter or paste the appropriate command line. Press RETURN and enter your admin password when prompted. It will not be echoed.
To turn them ON: sudo tmutil enablelocal
To turn them OFF: sudo tmutil disablelocal
Note that turning them OFF will also delete all existing snapshots.
Thank you for the ultra-fast response. However, I was thinking more along the lines of "How will the vacation laptop function without the hard drive?". Won't my vacation laptop be "empty"?
Why would it be empty? As I understand you have two separate laptops. Each with its own HDD. The wireless drive is just for backups.
I don't want to use it for back-ups. From what I've been reading about the Time Capsule (on Mac Store) it sounds like you can use it as a Share-point so that you can have multiple computers in the house all operating off of a common harddrive. I'm forever looking for files that are inevitibly on the "other computer" so having a shared harddrive sounds great. I'm just worried that I'll buy it and it won't do what I thought it would do.
A Time Capsule is not designed to be used for Netbooting. For that you need a Mac running OS X Server.
A Time Capsule is just a network connected device you can use to backup one or more computers wirelessly. Additionall, a Time Capsule can act as your home network's router.
Now I understand. Thank you.
if I have two laptops connected to a single wireless hard drive, what happens when one laptop wants to go on a trip and the other one needs to stay home?
