Tuesday, September 13, 2011

10.7: Using two Time Machine backups

Rotating Time Machine backups has never been easier as of 10.7. Apple included in Lion a command-line interface for Time Machine which makes it completely scriptable. For the complete details on the command-line interface take a look at the man page for tmutil.

I use two Time Machine backups (see my backup strategy below for my complete backup solution) one at home and one at work. Using MarcoPolo you can set triggers and actions to automatically switch your Time Machine destination.

At home, and at work, I have 10.7 Server setup running the Time Machine service. Using MarcoPolo my laptop can determine its location, work or home, and set the IP address for my server appropriately. The following are the details on how to set this up for a Time Machine destination of an AFP share point. With small changes, this will also work for a Time Machine destination of an external hard drive.

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