Using TimeMachine in corporate environment

Hello everyone,
I am in need of an answer to a complex question. We at our work we purchased a QNAP storage device to host the time machine backups for about 100 developers that use macbook pros and airs. My question is: If a person's laptop drive dies, and we get them another machine, how will time machine know that that backup is infact for that person? Thank you

The late James Pond wrote this excellent set of illustrated articles to answer your question:
Setting-up a new Mac from an old one, its backups, or a PC

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Using Time Machine in Corporate Environment

Hi, I have a question regarding time machine in a corporate environment. Instead of purchasing a time capsule, I thought it would be straight forward to share a large drive and have our ten Mac Pro computers share that drive for a time machine. This seemed to work for my test computer.
I then went to install it on one of our Mac Pros. I was able to map the shared drive but Time Machine did not recognize it. This made me take a step back and wonder if this use is even a good way to set it up. I read online where others were sucessfully setting up time machine using shared drives. Do I need to purchase a time capsule to use time machine on these ten computers? If so, will that configuration work over a wired network.
Thanks for any input.
-Stephen

soliveto wrote:
Hi, I have a question regarding time machine in a corporate environment. Instead of purchasing a time capsule, I thought it would be straight forward to share a large drive and have our ten Mac Pro computers share that drive for a time machine. This seemed to work for my test computer.
I then went to install it on one of our Mac Pros. I was able to map the shared drive but Time Machine did not recognize it. This made me take a step back and wonder if this use is even a good way to set it up. I read online where others were sucessfully setting up time machine using shared drives. Do I need to purchase a time capsule to use time machine on these ten computers?
No, not necessarily. You can connect one (or more) drives to one Mac. That Mac would back-up directly, of course; others on the same network can back up to the same drive(s) either via WIFI or Ethernet. See #22 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum. In this case, the Mac being backed-up directly should have it's own partition on the backup drive; the others could each have one, or could all share one.
You could back them all up to a Time Capsule (although with that many Macs, you'd almost certainly have to connect one or more USB drives to it for some of them to back up to). See #Q1 and Q2 in the Using TIME MACHINE with a TIME CAPSULE *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.

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Does anyone know whether iTunesU can be used in a secure environment for corporate training? Looking at previous posts it does not seem like it?

Sorry, but iTunes U is only available to K-12 public school districts, private schools and two- and four-year accredited, degree-granting, public or private colleges and universities. It's not available for corporations.
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I've got a WRT54G. I've also got a cable at my corporate client's office that I can plug directly into my PC, and when I do so, (Win XP, DHCP enabled), I get an IP address for my machine of 192.168.1.x, and I am able to access the internet, mail etc.
Now, I plug the same cable into my Linksys router, set up as DHCP. I get a connection IP according to router status, although gateway is 0.0.0.0 but I cannot actually access the internet using the router.
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Yikes! I bet the I.T. staff at your corporate clients are going crazy when you plug in your router. Your router is serving as a DHCP client that may not only be responding to your DHCP requests, but also other people's DHCP requests - in addition it sounds like your client is utilizing a 192.168.1.x address scheme (which is fine per RFC 1918), but your Linksys router is also using the same scheme (by default). Your router may be trying to do Natting (Network Address Translation), but with the same IP scheme on both sides things could get sticky. Your Linksys router isn't getting (nor is it designed to) get any routing protocols so it doesn't know which "next hop" to forward things to and as such things are getting nowhere. The 0.0.0.0 IP address is generally called a "gateway of last resort" meaning if your router doesn't have a known "route" to get to the destination - then forward it on to some other location, in a corporate environment this is generally a firewall, in your case though I suspect that it just simply didn't receive the next hop or gateway information. Now why your router isn't getting the correct DHCP information could be a number of reason's, likely though it's a security parameter your client has setup on their network to avoid uncontrolled network growth (such as the addition of wireless Access Points or Routers). So the question then becomes "why" are you doing this? If it's more ports (and the I.T. dept can't give you any), then you would be better off using a Linksys switch such as the EZXS55W (EtherFast® 10/100 5-port Auto-Sensing Switch). If it's for wireless capability then that's a whole other set of issues, as a unsecured / non I.T. controlled wireless connection could not open your clients network up to unauthorized persons (i.e. hackers), but also fail compliancy audits they may have to undertake such as SOX or HIPPA. If wireless is truly necessary it is EXRTREEMLY important to talk to the I.T. department prior to this installation.

TC and corporate environment.

We are looking to use TC in a corporate environment. We would like to house the TC units in our server room, do Mac's have to be directly connected to the TC in order to backup, or are the discoverable via Bonjour or TCP/IP? If this does not work, what solutions have you found to be useful?

c.baker wrote:
We are looking to use TC in a corporate environment. We would like to house the TC units in our server room, do Mac's have to be directly connected to the TC in order to backup, or are the discoverable via Bonjour or TCP/IP? If this does not work, what solutions have you found to be useful?
A TC will work either wirelessly or via Ethernet cable, although it's recommended to connect via Ethernet for the first backup (which copies everything); it will be much faster that way.
To avoid having to buy multiple TCs, you could connect a USB drive to the TC, and back some of the Macs up to it, rather than the TC's internal HD. Keep in mind that to keep a reasonable "depth" of backups, TM usually needs 2-3 times the space of the data it's backing-up. See #1 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum.
You can also back up wirelessly to a shared drive on another Mac on the same local network. You could get, say, a Mac Mini and connect a drive (or drives) to it, and use it as a server to back up several Macs. See #22 in the FAQ Tip.
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Yes, Skype is free for personal and business use. And not only are you freely allowed to use it in a corporate environment, instead, Microsoft actively encourage you to do so, and provide free tools for businesses such as "Skype Manager" for personal and managed (business) accounts, and "Skype Connect", which they encourage businesses to adopt for free to replace their phone system with Skype instead. I believe the reason Microsoft push for growth is because perhaps personal/businesses might decide to purchase Skype credits for calling landlines.But more importantly, as we learnt from Snowden's revelations about the CIA, that Microsoft store all video, voice, and messages over skype to sell or distribute freely to governments - similar to how Google also make money.And I believe Microsoft may also sell this data to third-parties for profit and analyse to display targeted ads within Skype. This is the reason why Microsoft has changed Skype radically since buying it - they now actively store everything you do on Skype in their cloud servers, which of course, individuals have no control over. So this includes sending video messages and pictures, which are automatically stored by Microsoft without permission from the user or even informing the user of their dubious tactics. Microsoft's Skype Privacy Policy briefly explains how they utilise our data.However, like all businesses, and like Google, they convenient leave out most details, including how Microsoft store all skype text, voice, pictures, and video data in their cloud system.

HT201250 Hello i am using TimeMachine to back-up entire Mac image (data + system) on an usb-local drive. I would like (on top of it) add a specific plan to back up some files on a remote network drive. Does TimeMachine support multiple back-up plans ? How

Hello i am using TimeMachine to back-up entire Mac image (data + system) on an usb-local drive. I would like (on top of it) add a specific plan to back up some files on a remote network drive. Does TimeMachine support multiple back-up plans ? How ?

Time Machine is capable of backing up to multiple locations, and can be used to back up to both a local hard drive and a networked drive (provided that that drive is in or connected to a Time Capsule or another Mac that is sharing it over the network). The catch, though, is that you can't specify different things to back up to different destinations. Whatever you exclude from Time Machine backups is excluded from ALL backups, and whatever is included is included on all.
So, get a large enough drive that you can back up everything you want in all locations, or use something else for maintaining the network backup.
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How do I set up Time Machine to a shared drive on another Mac?
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I have a new macbook pro and I would like to have access to my old files and pictures that were on my old computer. I backed up my older mac onto an external hardrive using timemachine. Can I access those files without "downloading" it all onto my new computer? If so, how? If I can't, do I just need to get a new external hardrive and manually copy those files onto it from my old computer? I still have it and it is still working, just slowly.
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My macbook pro's memory is full and I purchased an external hard drive. I am using timemachine, but need to earse/free up some memory on my laptop. How do I do this?

My macbook pro's memory is full and I purchased an external hard drive. I am using timemachine, but need to earse/free up some memory on my laptop. How do I do this?

Christinag1317 wrote:
My macbook pro's memory is full and I purchased an external hard drive. I am using timemachine, but need to earse/free up some memory on my laptop. How do I do this?
Ok when you refer to "memory" that is the Random Access Memory which is temporary memory the processor (worker) uses to store stuff while it's using it. Power goes off whats in the memory is gone.
Your storage drive is where data is pernamnetly stored if the power is on/off.
So what you really mean to say is your storage drive is filled up and you need to make some room.
You have a TimeMachine drive, what this does is makes a image of your internal storage drive as a backup method, it also allows some "back in time" restoration of your previous deleted files depending how much space is on that drive. The more space, the less data you have, the more days you can go back in time to retrieve something.
Unfortunatly the TimeMachine drive is not a extra space storage drive, it automatically rotates what appears on your internal storage drive. So if you delete something from the internal drive, it eventually gets deleted from the TimeMachine drive.
So you need to make some more room on your internal drive, this is rather easy, all you need is ANOTHER external drive and connect it to the Mac. Give it a name like ExtraStorage#1 and thenyou will have to decide which of your User files you really don't need on the internal drive.
For instance the best choice would be to move some movies out of your Movies folder to another MoviesExtra folder on the ExtraStorage#1 drive.
Movies take a LOT of drive space and you can always copy them on or off, or watch them from the ExtraStorage#1 drive as well. But if your going to do this a lot, you should consider getting a Firewire 800/400, USB 3,2,1 combination drive as Firewire 800 is fastest and decently priced (Thunderbolt is very high priced and overkill at this time)
The other things like Documents are quite small, Pictures can take a lot of space if you have a lot, but if you need them on the internal drive then that's better. Music one tends to use a lot or manage playlists and such, but perhaps some music you may which to move off or "prune", I suggest always burning data DVD's of music especially for extra backups.
Once you have freed some room on the internal drive, this liitle neat program will show you what is taking the largest amount of space on your internal drive.
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
After a scan, right click on the big squares to "revel in Finder" to show you what's taking the largest amount of space, be warned it also opens up hidden system files and folders, which you won't be able to move. So concentrate on what's inthe Users folder.
Likely if you have a lot of Movies this is the biggest culprit on most standard internal hard drives. Also if you have something in iTunes that's auto-downloading something like PodCasts and not deleting the older ones and you forget. So go there and fix things and that can free up drive space.
If you bought a small SSD with your new Mac, then the price of that SSD has come back to haunt you with low storage space, you will have to think carefully what you can live without on the internal drive.
Once you have slimmed things down, TimeMachine will update to reflect your slimmer internal drive. What this means is there is only one copy of your data on the ExtraStorage#1 drive.
You need to maintain two copies of your data at all times on seperate hardware, so now you need ANOTHER storage drive (ExtraStorage#2) to copy everythinng of ExtraStorage#1, or else if you drop or have a mechanical problem with ES#1 all that data will be gone!
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