Wednesday, September 05, 2007

After some contemplating on wether I should I get a mac or not, my final conclusion was that I should get a pc because that will work smooth with my present Netgear SC101. Apparantly the Netgear SC1010 is not created to be compatible with mac. What were the Netgear people thinking? Anyway, I almost ordered a new pc today, but because of some ordering problems I decided to wait. To my surprise, or not, I discovered just now that some kid/geek, had found a solution to my problem. Thought I'd share it:
I got the Netgear SC101 to successfully back up my Mac! 1. I set up Windows sharing on my Mac so that I could access the Mac's folders on my PC. 2. On my PC I created a new backup profile for the SC101 using the SmartSync software that was bundled with the SC101. In the new backup profile I defined the source folders for the backup as the ones on the Mac. I was able to select them by going through My Network Places to the Mac. 3. I run the Mac backup from my PC, which effectively acts as a controller for the Mac backup process. Just figured this out in the last 10 minutes. Seems to be working well. Mat

Wether it actually works or not, I don't know...

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