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Re: Time Machine as a Backup for the server

Title: Re: Time Machine as a Backup for the server
On 7/2/09 9:30 AM, "Hakan Kaya" <email@hidden> wrote:

Am 02.07.2009 um 03:34 schrieb Brian F. Opitz:
elusiv3 wrote:
I have been using Time Machine as a backup on a few servers for about 6 months with no issues. It's very handy for restoring files to user homes. If a user deletes a file that was there an hour ago I can very easily get it back. Depending on your backup up needs and the services that your server is running I think Time Machine is a very good reliable option.  

  
On 02/07/2009, at 12:30 AM, Steve Meredith wrote:
  
  
   
    
I'm new to the list, please forgive me if this has been asked and answered!
    
    
Our HP Tape backup failed, it can no longer read-write to tape.  I was thinking a faster method would be to use TimeMachine as a server grade backup.
    
Wondering about the reliability, rotation of media (two separate drives) etc.
    
    
Thoughts
    
    
 
  
 
Please. This has been discussed so many times before on this list that we don't need to hear it anymore. Time Machine is designed for the home user. Period. To use it in a mission-critical, production, environment is simply lunacy. Would you risk your paycheck on it? I know I wouldn't.
 
 

I don't quite get the point, why this product should be exclusively designed for the home user when Apple did include it in the server version to be used in not-so-home environments.
Maybe backing up the server itself is another issue that could be discussed but obviously TM is not intended for home use only by its producer. So lunacy seems a bit far fetched to me.

Hakan Kaya



Chess and Photo Booth come with MOSXS too.  That’s no metric of Apple’s intent that you use them on your server.


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