Backing up a whole company's worth of macs on Time Capsule(s)
I have approx 80 macs in my company that need to be backed up better... I know that a Time Capsule can backup multiple macs, but I assume 80 isn't happening on one Time Capsule!
- How do I estimate how much space each mac is going to need? (I know I can exclude the operating system files from the backups -- I just want the user files.)
- When sharing a single Time Machine disk among multiple computers, I have learned that TM doesn't manage the cleanups properly unless each backup is on its own partition. Does Time Capsule do a better job of sharing space between multiple save sets?
- Realistically, how many computers can share the network bandwidth of a single Time Capsule at once? 2? 5? 20? 50? Most of my machines are on wired ethernet -- can I send my backups down the wires without any special gotchas?
- Is 3TB the limit for save sets, or can you hang a giant RAID off of the usb port on the device and use all of that space too?
- What sort of things happen on networks with multiple Time Capsules? Can they all run in AP mode, since dhcp, etc. is done elsewhere?
Is anybody else doing this? If none of you are, then is there a reason that it's a bad idea?
