Saving off site

Is there any way to save my songs other than on my computer hard drive? I need to free up space for real work!
Dell Windows XP

write to a dvd/cd, so you have a physical hard copy.
Get an external drive.

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TM backup far away, off site?

Hi folks,
Time Machine works great, it has saved me already on a couple of occasions. But the best backup would be a backup drive far away. After all, if a house fire or flood wipes out my MacBook, it would wipe out my backup drive as well. My dad lives 200 miles away. He has broadband. He has a MacBook, too, if it matters. If I bought a 500 gb external backup hard drive and put it at my dad's place, how could I set things up for me to do backups to that drive off-site?
-- josh

steinbej wrote:
Yikes. I found the "remote" directions. Lots of code to write, endless opportunities for screwing up not only my computer but my dad's as well. I don't think that's wise.
I've made it work when I tried in the past but yes, it can be intimidating.
I don't see anything about remote backup with Super Duper. I even checked their discussion forum. Can you point me in the right direction to that functionality? Tx.
you can create a sparse disk image on the remote computer and back up to that. enter "backing up over a network" in Superduper help for details.
-- Josh

DNS/web-server hosted off-site. How to set up Leopard server for mail?

Hey Everyone,
Brand new xserve with leopard server 10.5.2. Currently, Our web and DNS server for our domain,"company.com" is co-located off-site with an MX record of "mail.company.com" pointed at the static IP of the office where our mail server is. I want to replace the mail server with the xserve. With that in mind, how do I configure the DNS on the xserve during initial configuration to reflect that? Give it a self-referencing FQDN like server.company.office and see if the mail service can handle the domain hosted elsewhere?
I'm pretty new to servers and would love be able to keep this all in Standard but I'm not afraid to jump into Advanced if need be. I've created a test domain through GoDaddy of "company2.com" with an MX record of "mail.company2.com" pointing at the IP address of the xserve. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hello,
Have a look at this blog post:
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2010/08/reporting-the-quiz-results-to-a-local-server.html
Lilybiri

I saved photos from my Macbook Pro onto my Iphone (using itunes, 4 years ago). My macbook is now dead and I need to get the photos I saved off of my iphone 3GS transferred to a pc. Any help... From my PC I can only access "internal storage"

I saved photos from my Macbook Pro onto my Iphone (using itunes, 4 years ago). My macbook is now dead and I need to get the photos I saved off of my iphone 3GS transferred to a pc. Any help... From my PC I can only access "internal storage"

The iphone is not a storage/backup device. The picture sycn is one way - computer to iphone. The photos are also reduced in size when synced to iphone so they are not of the original quality
It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup of your computer.
Have you failed to do this?
If so, not good at all, you can e-mail the pics to yourself - keep in mind they will never be of the original quality

Can I clone my Time Machine hard drive, to another HD, and store Off Site?

Good day All, I love my new Macbook, but am trying to come up with a foolproof method of backing up all my data, documents, and business.
I have become very nervous about BACKUPS, and want to have an OFF-SITE week old backup done on a external Hard Drive?
I presently have a 200 gig Time Machine backup/archive, and have a daily clone with Super Duper & Carbon Copy Clone. However these hard drives are at home, so should the building burn down, or should we get broken into, there goes my business and digital life.
My thought is to buy an external hard drive and clone my current Time Machine hard drive to the external on a weekly basis, and store it off-site or at a friends house.
Would I be able to do a clone of my TM HD archive, and have it still useable / bootable / recoverable should a tragedy happen?
I would like to upload it all up to Mozy, or BackBlaze, or similar offering, but 200 gig is way too big.
Is anybody cloning a Time Machine hard drive and able to restore from it?
Thanks for reading my post, and am lookin forward to all of your comments, IAN...

Hi Ian,
Sorry I missed the discussion last night. I'll tell you how I'm accomplishing the backup task and you can let me know if this is what you're trying to do.
I now have 2 external HDs. A 1TB Seagate and a 250 GB LaCie. The LaCie used to be my TM backup drive, but it was the same size as my internal iMac drive. I knew I'd eventually need a bigger drive so I bought the 1TB Seagate yesterday and cloned the LaCie drive onto it using SuperDuper. The only thing on the LaCie drive was TM backups. Now the TM backup are on the Seagate. I unmounted the old TM drive and changed the name of the new drive to "Time Machine". I activated TM and it picked right up where it left off. I did test it by restoring an old file. I also changed a current file and made sure TM was still operating as advertised. Everything worked as expected.
Now I simply used the 250 GB drive to clone my system HD using CCC. It is a bootable backup and can be used to run the system should my internal drive become unusable. I will update this drive once a month with any changes to the system drive using CCC and keep it off-site in a safe deposit box in the meantime. Using this methodology, I don't see why you'd want to swap the drives weekly/monthly. Just let TM run on the large drive and keep the other drive as current as you like. I've decided monthly is good for me. I'm mostly worried about photos, but I keep them on the camera longer than a month, so there's my cover for the month.
Nano

I have remote desktop and need to log in to an off site windows PC?

I have remote desk top and am trying to log in to a windows server off site. How do I do this?

You cannot use Remote desktop to control Windows computers. You could remotely connect to a Mac on the same network as your PC, and then use Microsoft Remote Desktop to connect from there if you like. But I'd try just using Microsoft Remote Desktop from the App Store and connecting directly.

How to configure Mail to send from off-site

I am trying to configure Mail on a laptop that will send and receive email both went it is connected to the servers ISP (on site) and when the laptop is connected to a non-site ISP. In other words when I am in the office I am connected to the ISP that is hosting my mail server. When I am out of the office and using an ISP that is not hosting the mail server. I have configured Mail such that I can send and receive email when I am onsite. When I am offsite I can receive email but not send it. In order to fix the problem I have tried configuring the SMTP to require password authentication using a couple of different server ports (i.e. 25, 110 & 587) but have been unable to send from off site. At this point I am at a loss as what to do. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Mac Book Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9)
Mac Book Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9)

If the off-site ISP doesn’t let you send no matter what port you use, there is little, if anything, you can do about it. Many ISPs, however, only block port 25 for all traffic outside their own network. Something that usually works in those cases is changing the outgoing server port to 587 instead of 25 in Preferences > Accounts > Account Information > Outgoing Mail Server > Server Settings, but the outgoing server in question must listen to that port for this change to work.
If the off-site ISP allows sending on port 587, but the outgoing server you want to use doesn’t listen to that port, you may solve the problem by using an independent authenticated SMTP server that allows sending from any mail account no matter where you are.
A Gmail account, for example, would allow you to do this. Instructions for setting up a Gmail account are provided here:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13275
After setting up the Gmail account in Mail and checking that it works, you can use Gmail's SMTP server to send from your other mail accounts as well:
1. Log into your Gmail account on the web.
2. Go to Settings > Accounts.
3. Enable the addresses you want to be able to send from, and let Gmail validate them by verifying that you do indeed own them.
4. For each mail account you want to send from using Gmail’s SMTP server, in Mail go to Preferences > Accounts, and choose Gmail’s SMTP server from the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) popup menu.

Best Practice for 2008R2 DC off site backup

hello.
at the request of the management i am trying to finalize a plan that covers off different potential events that could afflict our domain controllers.
we currently have 2 DC's in our environment 1 holds all FSMO so we have redundancy if 1 goes down and i can use DC promo to build a new one and add it to the domain, then doing meta data clean up if needed.
i have system state backups which will be useful if something happens to AD and i still have the original hardware to restore onto.
however if something horrific happens i lose both dc's and need to restore to new hardware i am dubious of the reliability of these system state backups as i have tested them in the past and often got BSOD issues.
i toyed with the idea of have a 3rd DC hosted off site in a data center, have replication occur to this and then i could use to rebuild new ones onsite if such a disaster were to occur.
any one have any suggestions or ideas on this one, or speak from there own experiences in this subject
Many Thanks

Having a off-site DC is always good, but in the event of a replicated failure it's not going to help, there is situations where you would need to do a forest recovery (for example backing out of a schema update) Then you need to restore a system state
backup of one DC and preferably re-install the others.
Enfo Zipper
Christoffer Andersson – Principal Advisor
http://blogs.chrisse.se - Directory Services Blog

I am trying to decide on a HDD for off site backup

I am trying to decide on a HDD for off site backup, should I use a bus powered drive or brick powered? Should I go cheaper with a powered unit or convenience of a bus powered drive. I would clone my computer and bring it to a friends house. I would do this 2 or 3 times a year just to have an off-site backup of my personal stuff.

How you connect the drive is really what will determine what in my opinion is best. If you connect directly to the iMac then get a brick powered drive. The reason being is iMac's are not known for supplying a lot of power from their USB ports and if you want your backup to be reliable it has to get good power. However if you are using a powered USB hub hanging a bus powered drive should be fine. I also think that if you are going to use the backup as a clone don't get a USB drive, that's just plain not too smart. Yes it would work however the performance would be awful, if you run into a situation where you rely on that drive for a time to run your Mac you'll hate the experience. In that case get a good Firewire 800 drive which will provide acceptable performance, never as good as a SATA drive but decent performance none the less. That being said if you do decide to get a FW800 drive it will be powered by a brick as I don't thing there is such a thing as a bus powered FW800 port.

Attempting to set up an off site backup

Hi,
Im attempting to set up an off site back up of the business date from a LaCie Big-Nas storage unit to another LaCie Big-Nas. All going well until I discovered that the BT Hub 3 router is not UPnP-IGD / NAT-PMP compatible? Can I solve this by making some changes or do I need to pick up a new router??
Any help much apprechitaed,
Andy

Thanks Anthony, looks like the HH3 dosent make life any easier! If we cant open the requred ports then it will have to be a couple of new routers I guess?

What off-site, online backup service works best with Aperature?

I would feel more comfortable with off-site backup for my 19,000 photos in iPhoto. I am thinking of moving to Aperature. I would like a service that would restore iPhoto or Aperature easily if my MBP hard drive should fail or corrupt my pictures. There are many from which to choose. CrashPlan looks good but I don't know if it would restore easily. I will appreciate help with this! Thanks!

I personally suggest a redundant back up plan. I use Time Machine and separate additional HDDs to back up data that I feel is important to me.
If you feel that an off site storage is a requirement, then that certainly is you decision. I just don't feel that it is worth that much effort.
I cannot comment specifically on the company you mention, but I have seen some difficulties with other similar services. I suspect that you have a lot of data (GBs) and the question is hoe long the restore would take and what guarantees there are in it's accuracy.
I do find Aperture to be a worthwhile application, but do not expect it to rival Photo Shop. It is a more sophisticate Photo in essence.
Ciao.

Off Site Backups?

I have a great deal of sensitive information on my MacBook. Prior to Leopard & Time Machine, I kept regular back ups at work, and weekly backups over the weekend at home.
Does anyone know if Time Machine has the capability of maintaining two separate backups on two separate drives? I created both initial backups already, and I know that I can figure this one out on my own through trial and error, but it takes so long for my initial backup to complete that I would like to know for sure so that I don't have to go through the process all over again.
If it doesn't work, I will probably use Time Machine at work and do a more conventional back up over the weekend at home. I guess I'm just trying to save myself a lot of time and trouble and I certainly appreciate any wisdom that anyone out there can share with me before I try pushing the button myself!
Best Regards to All!

I am sorry that it has taken me this long to add this post as an answer to my own question. After quite a bit of reading and a little bit of experimentation, it is now much clearer to me how Time Machine works, and it is also clear that it can only manage one back up drive at a time, even though that single back up drive can host many different computers running Time Machine. So, if you change your back up drive, it will become an archive with all of your back up data intact, but Time Machine will start over from scratch with the new back up drive, creating its complete back up all over again. This is great in one sense, that being if you want to have archival hard drives and don't mind tying up your computer for the initial back up process to run all over again. But for my purposes, I really want Time Machine to be able to go back as far into time as possible so that I can recover and/or review documents as they were in the past. Therefore switching drives, even from time to time, would not work as a solution for me.
So here's my plan:
• My Time Machine drive (which, by the way, is a big honker and will hold a lot of back ups, especially considering how Time Machine does backups), will remain at the office where I do the most work on my laptop and where files are changed throughout the day, every day.
• I will use DejaVu when I bring the laptop home at night and over the weekend in order to create an off site back up of my data. (I had been using DejaVu previous to my upgrade to Leopard and the advent of Time Machine, so it is a simple matter of continuing to use this particular program for me, but there are many other possibilities out there that will create a "mirror" of your data for off site purposes).
By trial and error I have found that the two programs in no way interfere with each other. When I go home on the weekend, DejaVu knows what files have changed and makes the appropriate back ups. When I plug my Time Machine drive back in at the office, it knows what has changed since the last time it was connected and it picks up right where it left off.
As I said, I did test this out myself, and it does work for me. As I also said, I did a good bit of reading as well. One of the best written, most thorough, and easiest to understand articles, (complete with pictures, I just love pictures!), can be found at Apple Insider:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/10/12/roadto_mac_os_x_leopard_timemachine.html&page=1
(Please note that this is the link to page one. The article goes on for several pages and is really a great read!)
Thanks to taalinukko and to Vince DiStefano for their replies and their input. I will continue to monitor this post just in case anyone out there might have any questions for me and my particular application of Time Machine and DejaVu to do regular and off site backups.
Best Regards to All!

Large off site backup - where?

I have close to 1 TB of music that I backup with Time Machine. However, I'd also like to backup the music off site because it is irreplaceable. I see that dropbox has an option for $200/yr. Is that my best option? Approximately how long will it take to do the initial backup? Thanks.

Well. it would depend on what you want your back up to be able to do:
Do you want to be able to boot your computer from it (make a bootable clone)?
Do you just want to full backup (use Time Machine)?
Do you only want your music on it as an extra backup (drag 'n drop) or store the actual library on it (must be tethered to the computer then so it can access the library)?
Here is some excellent info on Time Machine (I don't use it; I have several bootable clones instead):
http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html
I'd probably have at least 2 bootable clones (which would include the music) as well as a third which just has another copy of the music on it. That'd be the minimum.
As for the rewarding of points: once you've chosen an answer as either helpful or correct, it can't be changed, so your awards of helpful is a done deal.

TS1398 My ipad says it is connected to WiFi, which is workingly perfectly for several other devices, will not connect to internet. It keeps giving the message 'Cannot Connect' or error has occurred or just blink off site or icon?

My ipad says it is connected to WiFi, which is workingly perfectly for several other devices, will not connect to internet. It keeps giving the message 'Cannot Connect' or error has occurred or just blink off site or icon?

Some things to try first:
1. Turn Off your iPad. Then turn Off (disconnect power cord for 30 seconds or longer) the wireless router & then back On. Now boot your iPad. Hopefully it will see the WiFi.
2. Go to Settings>Wi-Fi and turn Off. Then while at Settings>Wi-Fi, turn back On and chose a Network.
3. Change the channel on your wireless router (Auto or Channel 6 is best). Instructions at http://macintoshhowto.com/advanced/how-to-get-a-good-range-on-your-wireless-netw ork.html
4. Go into your router security settings and change from WEP to WPA with AES.
5. Renew IP Address: (especially if you are droping internet connection)
    •    Launch Settings app
    •    Tap on Wi-Fi
    •    Tap on the blue arrow of the Wi-Fi network that you connect to from the list
    •    In the window that opens, tap on the Renew Lease button
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iOS 6 Wifi Problems/Fixes
How To: Workaround iPad Wi-Fi Issues
http://www.theipadfan.com/workaround-ipad-wifi-issues/
Another Fix For iOS 6 WiFi Problems
http://tabletcrunch.com/2012/10/27/fix-ios-6-wifi-problems-ssid/
Wifi Doesn't Connect After Waking From Sleep - Sometimes increasing screen brightness prevents the failure to reconnect after waking from sleep. According to Apple, “If brightness is at lowest level, increase it by moving the slider to the right and set auto brightness to off.”
Fix For iOS 6 WiFi Problems?
http://tabletcrunch.com/2012/09/27/fix-ios-6-wifi-problems/
Did iOS 6 Screw Your Wi-Fi? Here’s How to Fix It
http://gizmodo.com/5944761/does-ios-6-have-a-wi+fi-bug
How To Fix Wi-Fi Connectivity Issue After Upgrading To iOS 6
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/09/fix-wi-fi-connectivity-issue-after-upgrading- to-ios-6.html
iOS 6 iPad 3 wi-fi "connection fix" for netgear router
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsWS4ha-dn0
Apple's iOS 6 Wi-Fi problems
http://www.zdnet.com/apples-ios-6-wi-fi-problems-linger-on-7000004799/
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How to Fix a Poor Wi-Fi Signal on Your iPad
http://ipad.about.com/od/iPad_Troubleshooting/a/How-To-Fix-A-Poor-Wi-Fi-Signal-O n-Your-iPad.htm
iOS Troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks and connections http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1398
iPad: Issues connecting to Wi-Fi networks http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3304
WiFi Connecting/Troubleshooting http://www.apple.com/support/ipad/wifi/
How to Fix: My iPad Won't Connect to WiFi
http://ipad.about.com/od/iPad_Troubleshooting/ss/How-To-Fix-My-Ipad-Wont-Connect -To-Wi-Fi.htm
iOS: Connecting to the Internet http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1695
iOS: Recommended settings for Wi-Fi routers and access points http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4199
How to Quickly Fix iPad 3 Wi-Fi Reception Problems
http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/21/fix-new-ipad-3-wi-fi-reception-problems/
iPad Wi-Fi Problems: Comprehensive List of Fixes
http://appletoolbox.com/2010/04/ipad-wi-fi-problems-comprehensive-list-of-fixes/
Connect iPad to Wi-Fi (with troubleshooting info)
http://thehowto.wikidot.com/wifi-connect-ipad
Fix iPad Wifi Connection and Signal Issues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwWtIG5jUxE
Fix Slow WiFi Issue https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2398063?start=60&tstart=0
How To Fix iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch Wi-Fi Connectivity Issue http://tinyurl.com/7nvxbmz
Unable to Connect After iOS Update - saw this solution on another post.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4010130
Note - When troubleshooting wifi connection problems, don't hold your iPad by hand. There have been a few reports that holding the iPad by hand, seems to attenuate the wifi signal.
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If any of the above solutions work, please post back what solved your problem. It will help others with the same problem.
 Cheers, Tom

Off site implementation

Hi,
in the next project i have work on off site implementation project.
till now i am in onsite implementation.
can any body expalin what is the difference between on site and offsite implementation.
Regards
venkat

Hello,
The difference between both is you are physically not there in the client's place. If your company is using clients network (local area network will be connected to client's network using WAN) there is no need of VPN. If the connection is internet based, then you need to have a Login to VPN.
Almost all the dicsussions and workshops are help there in on-site, you may be a part of the discussion using telephone or video conferencing. The work will be devided and allocated.
The advantage of working at client's place is , if there is any issues you can speck to the concrned person directly and the issue can be solved then and there.
Prase

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