22.03.2008 07:50 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

Back UP over WiFi - is this really viable?

Time Machine is one of the big new features of Leopard, not only due to the simplicity of making a back-up, but also from the point of view of recovering files that have been deleted or modified since the original back-up. Using an external disk, USB or Firewire, this back-up proves to be simple and comfortable - one only has to remember to connect the disk regularly. Following the concept of the Time Capsule it is now possible to use Time Machine with an external disk connected to an Airport BAse Station N. On paper this is a very elegant solution. It is just necessary to connect to the network and everything is done behind the scenes with any user intervention. However in reality, this solution is not so tempting. Since, most of us, maybe all, have several tens of GB of data on their disks, and sometimes several hundred, shared among hundreds of thousands of files. Using WiFi, the backup to a Time Capsule disk (or to a disk connected to an Airport base station N) is very slow. Ou

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