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So while I've been saving for a MB I've been looking at what else I need to complete my school based setup in my bedroom. I will need to work out what wireless router to get, and I've been looking at external HDDs. Not cheap, 1TB drive is $300+. It only occurred to me last night that I could backup my files on my PC via USB.
I have 2x 250GB Seagate HDDs, one for the XP and programs, the other for games. I wanted a backup storage solution so I could create an image of the Mac and back it up weekly, as well as daily sync all my school work + music and movies. Would this work?
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You would have to format one of these drives as HFS+ for the Mac to be able to read and write to it.
PCs use HDs formatted as FAT-32 or NTFS . You could simply have the two computers networked together and backup your Mac that way or manually transfer files by USB stick. Stewie
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Sorry. My bad . I'm aware Macs can read and write to Fat 32 ( 4Gb limit ) but in this instance where Joe91 mentions movies and music ( big files ) I thought it would probably not be the best way to go.
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Time Machine (10.5's built-in backup software) won't work with network volumes unless it is a Time Capsule or a Mac running Mac OS X Server 10.5.2 or greater. It can be made to work with an Airport Extreme Base Station via its AirDisk feature but is untrustworthy and unsupported.
The budget-minded solution is to obtain a medium-capacity 2.5" hard drive and USB-based external enclosure (something like a Seagate FreeAgent, or build one yourself) and use that to clone your working install to with Carbon Copy Cloner or as a basic Time Machine volume, and you can keep your large data files stored on your PC or other network storage device.
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Yes , even though I have a couple of desktops with added on HDs , I must say the best thing I have bought in the last couple of years is an external Firewire/USB2.0 drive with a 300Gb Hd inside for all my backups from here on these forums. I don't have any music or videos on it so apart from work backups and family photos, I have only filled up about 30Gb so far.
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