Backup over the internet

How to backup my mac to a time machine over the internet

You can use btmm and icloud.. but it is not recommended.. by Apple and most of us who deal with them. TM corrupts itself easily enough over wireless in local lan.. it will corrupt even easier over internet..
Since Mountain Lion TM will backup to the local disk when you are away. It can also backup to multiple locations.. a 1TB 2.5" drive is a pretty easy box to carry around.. and TM will automatically work to TC when back home.

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Backup over the Internet to my new time capsule

I travel a lot, and want to back up my new (late 2013) mac air to my new time capsule.
Can I do this over the internet with time machine?
Sorry, but I can't find this in the user manual. I have DSL at home.
Thanks!!

Apple says specifically don't do it.
See BTMM and iCloud instructions.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3486
And I quote.
Can Time Machine remotely back up or restore data from AirPort Time Capsule or its attached hard drive via Back to My Mac?
Backing up or restoring Time Machine backups remotely (that is, via Back to My Mac and the Internet instead of your local network) is not recommended. If you want to back up or restore with Time Machine and AirPort Time Capsule, you should do so while directly connected to your AirPort Time Capsule's local network.
I think Apple have good reason to recommend you don't do it.. eg.. you can easily corrupt the entire backup. So instead of having an up to date backup you will have none.
Use a 2.5" portable drive when travelling. When you get home.. backup to the TC as usual.

Remote Backup Over the Internet to Time Capsule

I am looking to backup my macbook pro over the internet to a remote Time Capsule. Is there a solution? i'm using Lion OS

How easy or hard this is depends on how the TC is setup, but if it is the main router and is getting the public IP from the modem it should be relatively easy to share on the internet. I haven't done it so let me leave that for you to google or others here to answer.
Here is a pre-googled one for you to start.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1792838?start=0&tstart=0
You can do it manually using port forwarding from the router, if you are not using TC in router mode.
http://gigaom.com/apple/access-your-time-capsule-over-the-internet/
Note the requirements to use a public IP address (static address is far superior to do this) or dyndns address.
Getting port forwarding to work in some routers is non-trivial.
Apple should have designed the TC with secure ftp or some sort of vpn/ssl access.. but I digress. They didn't and as yet nobody has managed to hack one in.
But I guess I would be trying to talk you out of doing it at all. Upload on vast majority of internet connections is slow.. even if you have fast downloads, uploads are usually restricted to 1mbit.. you might be fortunate and have really fast connection but mostly uploads are far to slow to want to do this.
Lion will recognise that you are not on your home network, or the external backup device is absent and use local drive to take a snapshot. Although a local hdd is obviously less safe than a true backup, it is generally an excellent solution for roadies. That is why it is turned on by default in notebooks.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4878

Backups over the internet

I think this may have worked in Leopard but I haven't had Leopard in a while. I mount my Time Capsule by using the Connect to Server function and inputting afp://[My Internet IP Address] and it mounts my Time Capsule and I can read and write with no problems. However, when I try to make Time Machine do a backup, it says that the backup disk is not available. It mounts at the same mount point of /Volumes/Time Capsule, so I'm not sure why it won't find it. Any way to make this happen?

gadgetboyj wrote:
I think this may have worked in Leopard but I haven't had Leopard in a while. I mount my Time Capsule by using the Connect to Server function and inputting afp://[My Internet IP Address] and it mounts my Time Capsule and I can read and write with no problems. However, when I try to make Time Machine do a backup, it says that the backup disk is not available. It mounts at the same mount point of /Volumes/Time Capsule, so I'm not sure why it won't find it. Any way to make this happen?
That may be possible; at least one user managed to make it work (on Leopard with an Airport, not a Time Capsule): http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10056416&#10056416
I've not seen any other reports of it working, though.
If you manage to get it to work, don't depend on those backups entirely; maintain some sort of secondary backups. That's always a good idea (no app is perfect, and all hardware fails, sooner or later), but especially so with this type of, er, tenuous setup.
Let us know your results.

Windows Storage Server 2008 Backup over the internet

I have a client that uses Windows storage server 2008 Essentials and wants to backup his employees' laptops at his office to the storage server standing at his house. I have setup the network at his house with a public IP and can access remote
website for Storage server. I can even access the /connect site and download the connect software.
Then I setup a VPN tunnel to the network at his house so that the laptops at the office are on the same network as the storage server, this works and I can install the connect software when a laptop is on the VPN, meaning the connect software setup finds
the server and everything, but when I try to log in using the Launchpad or Dashboard on the laptop it says it can't find the server. How is this possible if I just installed and setup the connect software? Am I missing something here or can you point me in
the right direction. The laptops even show in the Dashboard when I remote desktop to the storage server and open the dashboard on the storage server.

Hi,
The issue may be due to the NetNatTransitionConfiguration is overlapping the backup port (default to 8912). You could refer to the thread below to troubleshoot the issue:
Client backup cannot connect after DirectAccess/VPN role added
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/6522dba0-9342-4839-b806-0656d18d2329/client-backup-cannot-connect-after-directaccessvpn-role-added
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Backups over the Internet Using MobileMe Family Pack

I know how to configure an AirPort (AirPort Extreme, Time Capsule) to be accessible for Back to My Mac using a MobileMe account. However, we have a Family Pack. I am the Pack master, so I used my ID to set up Back to My Mac on my Time Capsule (and Air Port Extreme at our other location). This seems to just make the master account work. Should the master account enable all of the MobileMe family accounts to leverage Back to My Mac (and hence things like remote backups)?

Recent update to AirPort enables multiple MobileMe accounts to be used for BackToMyMac

Backing up a macbook to a mini over the Internet w/ Time Mach.

I have a Mac Mini at home and a MacBook. I need to backup my MacBook while on the road doing business.
Is there a way to backup to my MacMini at home thru Time Mach. over Apple Remote Desktop?
Is there a way to backup over the Internet thru an IP address?
I have Leopard and presently use Time Machine.
Either solution would be great. And of course my ears are open to any alternate solutions that y'all might want to float my way. I've always had great luck solving problems on these fine Discussion Boards. (OK, it's not luck -- it's the combined skill and experience of the community!) Thanks!

Personally I don't and won't use TM so I don't have an opinion about added features. TM is too unreliable as it is in my opinion.
The ability to backup over the internet is already available in many different ways not the least of which is via FTP or to use one of the hundreds of already present online services such as .Mac/MobileMe if you're willing to pay the cost.
Remote Desktop is not a backup solution. Although the client is free the server application is not, so again to use it involves a cost. Letting clients backup to servers is probably not a good idea unless that's the business of the servers. Storage space on servers is usually at a premium, so letting clients backup to the servers would waste precious storage space.
You need to understand that TM is not a general, enterprise level, do everything backup solution. It is intended to provide the average user with a built-in backup solution for personal use. There already are other types of backup utilities capable of heavier duty backup needs.

How do I backup my time capsule to another time capsule over the internet

I have a Time Capsule that I use for backups locally within my own home. My parents have one as well that they use for their backups. Ideally it would be great to have my backups offsite -- if your house burns down it doesn't help that your backups were in the house...
So is there a way to copy (automatically) the image from one TC to another and vice versa over the internet?

No, there isn't, and even if there was, it would take forever, or possibly longer.
Any backup done over the internet will be quite slow; upload speeds are generally much, much slower than download speeds. Some of the companies that do internet backups, such as Mozy, Carbonite, etc., actually ship you an external HD for the first backup. You ship that back, they load it onto their servers, then do "incremental" backups of what's changed over the net.
In addition, it's not a good idea to back up a backup; any problem with the original will be copied to, and perhaps magnified, on the copy.
A much better approach is to get a portable external HD; do backups to it, then take it to a secure off-site location. See #27 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions for some suggestions, especially the pink box there.
It still might be a good idea to have some limited data backed-up over the internet, such as relatively-small things and/or things that rarely change.

Mirror or backup one Airport Time Capsule 2TB to another over the internet?

Hello, is it possible to mirror, or backup, one Airport Time Capsule 2TB to another, at a remote location over the internet?
Much appreciated.

Copying a backup is actually a poor way to make reliable backups.. because an error creeps into the backup and the copy simply replicates it.
I would use a USB drive plugged directly into the computer, and use a software like CCC to make a bootable clone.. I tell you honestly.. it is just wonderful when you have disk issue in a computer to be able to plug in a hard drive and boot the computer from it. Especially Macs with their hard to reach drives. Changing a drive on a PC laptop or desktop computer is usually trivial. It is far from trivial in a Mac.
Use two USB drives and swap them over to offsite weekly. Then use cloud for incremental in between.. or a combo of the TM .. TM can backup to multiple destinations.
See http://pondini.org/TM/34.html

Time Capsule - how to gain "over-the-internet" access from Windows 7!

Hi guys,
I've been fighting for such a long time with my Time Capsule. I have no idea how to gain access "over-the-internet" on a PC (Windows 7) which is running on another network. My Time Capsule is set up with my Macbook Pro at home running Lion OSX, and i have internet connection. My brother who also uses Macbook has no problems connecting to my Time Capsule - through finder (connect to a server). But how do I gain "over-the-internet" access to my Time Capsule through a PC (Windows 7) from my office? Is there please someone who can guide me step-by-step, how to gain connection to my TC through a PC? Or maybe just an explantaion what has to be done on the PC before this thing can work out! This was the main reason to why i bought Time Capsule - besides of the Time Machine function. I also have an iCloud account (earlier Mobile Me), if that makes any difference.
Thanks!

There is no way to do it from windows direct to the TC.
It only presents AFP to the WAN side. And most ISP block SMB from internet access due to risks. There is AFAIK, no suitable AFP protocol utility for windows at the moment. If you google and find one, be aware it probably will not work to your satisfaction anyway.
You must use a Mac to access AFP but even then it is not a secure protocol and I would recommend against it anyway.
So basically if you had have asked before purchasing, I would have said, TC is unsuitable product. It is a backup drive for a Mac. It is not a NAS.. it is not designed for remote access by any computer other than a Mac. It does not support any other file protocol to the WAN interface.. and no secure protocol even there.
A NAS with Time Machine extensions from QNAP, Synology, Netgear all are designed for web access and are far more suitable. Researching a purchase beforehand is always worthwhile.
Anyway, your choices are.. return the TC and buy something more suited to the job.
Or if return is now impossible sell the TC on ebay.. etc and do the same thing.. buy a more suitable NAS.
Or buy a cheap mac mini (even second hand) and use that for communications with home.
Or, replace your current router with something that includes vpn. This is actually a good and commercially sound decision. VPN is generally used by business to connect to remote locations, because it is secure and will allow the greatest flexibility of connection. How hard or easy depends on the current setup. I would recommend a combined modem router with vpn server if you have adsl. Or for cable you can find plenty of routers with combined vpn. You can also use those for adsl if your ISP allows pppoe with bridged modem. The TC will have to be bridged as well. For other broadband it might be harder to find the right kind of box.
Once you setup a vpn you can access it from work using the appropiate vpn client in your work computer.

DPM Over the internet

My goal is to take backup of domain joined and workgroup laptop over internet , Microsoft said yes we can take backup of laptop over internet ( I am not talking about over the VPN ) .
I am using DPM 2012 R2
I went through this but couldn't help me.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/5a6ef5ba-01cd-4507-ac3f-260cb120e0a5/protecting-clients-over-the-internet?forum=dataprotectionmanager
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P2V over the Internet

Hi!
We have an Exchange 2013 Server running on win 2012 Std on an physical machine. We need to have the backup for this as a VM on a remote site over the internet. What are the requirements and recommendations? We already have hyper-v servers on remote site.
Thanks.

Hi,
Based on my research, here is a reference about the requirements of Exchange 2013 virtualization:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj619301(v=exchg.150).aspx#BKMK_Prereq
We need to make sure we have enough RAM in the physical hosts for allocating memory for the VM we’ll create during the P2V migration, take care of enough free space on the disks for hosting the virtual hard drives and configure virtual networks.
For more information, you can refer to the following documents:
Steps of physical to virtual
Best
Practices for Virtualizing & Managing Exchange 2013
If you have any question, please feel free to let me know.
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Can the time machine be accessed remotely over the internet?

Hi, I am thinking about purchasing the time machine. Can the hard drive on the time machine be accessed remotely over the internet?

Do you realize that if you store some of your Mac's data (photos, music, etc.) ONLY on the external Time Capsule, AND also store your "Time Machine" app "system backups" on the Time Capsule,then if the Time Capsule hard drive ever fails you will have lost the " original" and the "backup" copies of all that data (photos, music, etc.)? They will be gone forever. NOT recommended!

How do I access my time capsule over the internet

How do I access my time capsule over the internet. I've already set it up to share over WAN, but I have ATT so my TC is connected to the router provided by ATT can I still access my TC via the internet even though its not directly connected to the Ethernet?

The TC should be in bridge mode.. not setup to share over wan.. that will never work. That is assuming you haven't bridged the ATT router.
Once you bridge the TC see if you can setup BTMM using icloud settings in the TC. As per the Apple docos.. here.
You should also be able to directly access the TC since you have a router with dyndns client at a guess.. the setup is simply forward port 548 to the TC.
Google search this.. there is huge number of resources available. eg
http://useranswer.com/answer/how-can-i-access-my-time-capsule-remotely-with-iclo ud/

Can not view video over the Internet on WVC80N

I set up the web cam, set up the port forward etc so now I am able to:
   1. view/change web cam settings inside my home network.
   2. view video inside my home network.
   3. view/change web cam settings over the Internet.
But I am not able to view video over Internet. Every time I did so (using IE browser), after clicking the view video button, I got an error : There are too many user connections or the device is busy, please try again latter.
Anyone has a fix on this? I set up port forwarding on port 1024 (that's how I can chage settings over Internet).
I spent 2 hours on the phone with Linksys tech support but they could not find the reason.
Thanks,
Sam

Who is your ISP? How you are trying to access your Camera from the remote location? Along with Port 1024 you need to do port forwarding for port 80 on your router for the Cameras IP address. As WVC80N works on your HTTP Port.
To access your camera from the Remote location, you need to use http://wan ip:80.

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