Re: Alternative to Time Capsule

[Pete]

Hi Peter, thanks for that. Sadly the brain of the TC is dead in my Brother in 
law's unit, we can hear the drive spinning up each time it re powers but no 
lights and no Wi-Fi available from it. If only it were just the HDD failed, I 
could swap it out, I put a 3TB drive into mine many years ago as 1TB was too 
small for my expanding family.


Regards

Pete

> On 16 Nov 2020, at 8:52 am, Peter Hinchliffe  
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 16 Nov 2020, at 8:37 am, Peter Crisp  wrote:
>> 
>> H there, my Brother in law has two iMacs each of which we’re backing to his 
>> old style flat Time Capsule which is now dead - tried all of the reset 
>> methods numerous times. It’s cactus. Some options he has are to buy a used 
>> tower style TC or go to using his iiNet NBN modem Wifi and attach a backup 
>> NAS drive to it and set Time Machine to push backups to the NAS. 
>> 
>> Does anyone have experience with either and if the NAS route is all ok, is 
>> there a recommended brand of NAS?
>> 
>> Does Migration Assistant work ok in pulling back to set up a new iMac from a 
>> backup on a NAS? Are there any downsides to a NAS solution.
>> 
>> The TC is such a good device it is a shame that Apple no longer produce 
>> them. There may be some new-old stock laying around or a cleared known used 
>> one would be ok I suppose.
> 
> The hard d
> rive in my TC died several months ago, but the networking hardware still 
> works so i’ve replaced the TM functionality with a couple of 3 & 5 Tb USB 
> drives. Fortunately these are now cheap enough to make this feasible. I’m 
> looking at a NAS eventually but managing with the current set up at the 
> moment.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
> FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
> Perth, Western Australia
> Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948
> 
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Re: Alternative to Time Capsule

[Peter Hinchliffe]

> On 16 Nov 2020, at 8:37 am, Peter Crisp  wrote:
> 
> H there, my Brother in law has two iMacs each of which we’re backing to his 
> old style flat Time Capsule which is now dead - tried all of the reset 
> methods numerous times. It’s cactus. Some options he has are to buy a used 
> tower style TC or go to using his iiNet NBN modem Wifi and attach a backup 
> NAS drive to it and set Time Machine to push backups to the NAS. 
> 
> Does anyone have experience with either and if the NAS route is all ok, is 
> there a recommended brand of NAS?
> 
> Does Migration Assistant work ok in pulling back to set up a new iMac from a 
> backup on a NAS? Are there any downsides to a NAS solution.
> 
> The TC is such a good device it is a shame that Apple no longer produce them. 
> There may be some new-old stock laying around or a cleared known used one 
> would be ok I suppose.

The hard d
rive in my TC died several months ago, but the networking hardware still works 
so i’ve replaced the TM functionality with a couple of 3 & 5 Tb USB drives. 
Fortunately these are now cheap enough to make this feasible. I’m looking at a 
NAS eventually but managing with the current set up at the moment.

Kind regards,

Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948

Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.

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Alternative to Time Capsule

[Peter Crisp]

H there, my Brother in law has two iMacs each of which we’re backing to his old 
style flat Time Capsule which is now dead - tried all of the reset methods 
numerous times. It’s cactus. Some options he has are to buy a used tower style 
TC or go to using his iiNet NBN modem Wifi and attach a backup NAS drive to it 
and set Time Machine to push backups to the NAS. 

Does anyone have experience with either and if the NAS route is all ok, is 
there a recommended brand of NAS?

Does Migration Assistant work ok in pulling back to set up a new iMac from a 
backup on a NAS? Are there any downsides to a NAS solution.

The TC is such a good device it is a shame that Apple no longer produce them. 
There may be some new-old stock laying around or a cleared known used one would 
be ok I suppose.

Regards


Pete
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Re: Big Sur ??

[Robin Belford]

For those of you considering updating to Bir Sur.

https://mrmacintosh.com/macos-big-sur-11-list-of-serious-install-upgrade-issues-updated/?utm_source=rss_medium=rss_campaign=macos-big-sur-11-list-of-serious-install-upgrade-issues-updated
 


Also consider that this only happens to <0.01% of installations and upgrades. 
Better odds than driving to the shops.

robin


> On 16 Nov 2020, at 7:52 am, Peter Hinchliffe  
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 13 Nov 2020, at 5:20 pm, Stephen Chape > > wrote:
>> 
>> Hi folks.
>> 
>> The Big Sur macOS 11 upgrade seems to have crept up unnoticed.
>> Just heard about it from a UK Mac User Group I belong to.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Stephen Chape
> 
> Yes, it literally crept in this year, pretty much completely unannounced 
> (officially) by Apple. I think the first I heard about it was on MacWorld on 
> Friday morning. The second time I heard anything about it was on Sunday from 
> a client who went ahead and installed it on his 13” Macbook Pro which is now 
> unresponsive, so as with all first releases of new Mac OS software, treat 
> this one with extreme caution, at least for the first couple of releases.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
> FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
> Perth, Western Australia
> Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948
> 
> Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
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Re: Big Sur ??

[Peter Hinchliffe]

> On 13 Nov 2020, at 5:20 pm, Stephen Chape  wrote:
> 
> Hi folks.
> 
> The Big Sur macOS 11 upgrade seems to have crept up unnoticed.
> Just heard about it from a UK Mac User Group I belong to.
> 
> Regards,
> Stephen Chape

Yes, it literally crept in this year, pretty much completely unannounced 
(officially) by Apple. I think the first I heard about it was on MacWorld on 
Friday morning. The second time I heard anything about it was on Sunday from a 
client who went ahead and installed it on his 13” Macbook Pro which is now 
unresponsive, so as with all first releases of new Mac OS software, treat this 
one with extreme caution, at least for the first couple of releases.

Kind regards,

Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948

Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.

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