How to backup to OSX server sitting in a different network?

Hi, i have a mac mini with 3 TB of external hard drive running on a diffrent network range. I want a couple of users to backup their data on their machine to the mac mini server which is running the time machine backup server. How do i achieve this?

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I'm trying to figure out what the best option is for a cloud based backup for OSX Server.
Ideally:
1. Does not require a local user to be logged in on the server to function
2. Able to include/exclude files/folders
3. Bonus: Cloud based sharing of folders (like dropbox, which just doesn't work well on OSX Server and of course isn't a backup option)
Recs?

CrashPlan Pro service.
Works well with OS X Server, retains permissions, ext attributes, ACLs, etc.
$8/month unlimited
They do have an iOS app that lets you access your archive and save archived files to the ios device.
Some people have issues with java memory.. In general, I have fewer issues with this than other systems.
I backup about 180 machines (almost half are servers) with crashplan pro or crashplan pro enterprise.

Automated backups of OSX Server 10.5 with Time Capsule (TC)

I am running OSX 10.5 Server on a G5. The server is working well. I have the server plugged into a TC. I would like to do automated backups from the server to the TC.
I can read and write to the TC disk fine from the server.
When I try to configure Time Machine to do automated backups of the server to the TC it does not work. I set the preferences in TM. It seems to accept them. But the configuration never gets saved, and so TM always complains "Time Machine Error - No backup volume has been selected. To select a backup volume, open System Preferences and choose Time Machine."
This is of course is what I have just done, but the changes are not getting saved.
Any ideas?
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jp6940 wrote:
I only have 16gb of my 120gb? hard drive left to use. Will the Time Capsule "mirror" my hard drive or can I "move" some of my large files (iTunes and iPhoto) over to the TC to free up space on my G4's hard drive?
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You can also attach an external USB drive to your Time Capsule and move anything you want to that.
I also have an Apple TV. Will this be a problem being connected too?
No.
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For the most part, dragging programs to the trash will eliminate all but "preference" files. To locate those, look in <yourhomefolder>/Library/Preferences.

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I suggest you ask in the server forum
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How to uninstall/remove OSX Server Demo?

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How do i remove osx server from my mac mini and just run mac osx lion

i don'r wish to run osx server just osx lion. how do i remove the server software?

One possibility is to obtain the DMG for OS X Lion, boot from it and reinstall the client version.
In my past experience, you'll keep the OS X Lion Server recovery partition, but you will most definitely be running OS X Lion without the server software deployed.
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All computers are on the same network/subnet.
We have made no major changes to OSX Server at this point.
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print:setStateVersion = 1
print:currentJobs = 0
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print:readWriteSettingsVersion = 1
print:pluginVers = "10.4.140"
print:startedTime = "2007-05-24 16:55:05 -0400"
================================
All 3 queues are setup for SMB.
================================
Access has:
"Use same access for all services" checked.
"Print" does not show up on the grayed out list underneath it.
However, AFP, FTP, iChat, Login Window, Mail, SSH, VPN, Web, Weblog, Windows and Xgrid all do.
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PowerBook G4 12 867MHz Mac OS X (10.4.9) iMac G5 20 2GHz, iPOD Nano 1GB & 60GB, AppleTV 40GB

How do I stop OSX from creating ._ thumbnails of network files

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How to transfer the coherence cache t to a different network/environment?

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could quickly
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that are not
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a FULL backup.
a Home Directory backup
a Database MySQL backup (if you are using it)
an email forwarder or filter backup (if using)
(again, if your hosting has this) these .tar.gz files stored
on your machine
or backup media will allow you to quickly restore your site
to this host or
almost any other host using CPanel. And even if can't restore
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Can't figure out how to make my OSX Server / AD (magic triangle) work- Please help

Hi there,
I have set up a machine with Mac OS X 10.9.1 and Server.app 3.0.2. I think installation and configuration was made ok (I do have experience with Macs and I am part-time admin for the Active Directory in my organisation). I set up a magic triangle by binding my Mac server to an Active Directory domain. Now, I am not a specialist for this so I bought and used "OS X Mountain Lion Server For Dummies" by John Rizzo, which helped me. I did set up everything, even including AD users to OD groups on the Mac server.
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No reason to be angry as it's in his book on page 112. You possibly did not understand its significance until you'd done it yourself?
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"What if I want users in some AD Groups to be controlled users on the client and users in other AD groups to be admins on the client?"
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