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Time Machine Backups from Airport Extreme

Hopefully Apple doesn’t make up some way to disable this in the future, but it seems that despite claims elsewhere on the web, the latest Airport Extreme can be used with a USB hard drive to perform Time Machine backups. I’ve always heard great things about the Airport devices and …

Easy and Free Network-based Time Machine Backup

I’ve been looking for a network-based (free) solution for backing up a couple of Macs using Time Machine at home for some time. Plugging external drives into our two Macs was doable, but not exactly convenient. There’s plenty of how-tos out there on setting up a Linux machine to offer …

Mac OS X 10.5.5 Released

The latest patch for OS X 10.5.5 is now available. It includes performance improvements for Spotlight, Time Machine, and Mail. Time Machine and Mail both have some significant fixes. A memory leak in Time Machine along with an issue where permissions are too open on the backup target have been …