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  1. SigmundJake229

    Is this a good plan?

    Hello! I am considering the following as a plan to migrate from iCloud to a home server to back up my: iPhone 15 Pro x 2 2023 IPad Pro x 2 2020 MacBook Pro 2011 MacBook Pro (used to operate CNC machine only) 2022 Dell laptop 225gb of photos, videos and documents Currently, we pay 10.99 per...
  2. D

    MP 1,1-5,1 Classic Mac Pro Server Build

    First off, I want to say that I'm glad to be back here on the forums. Thank you to the admin who reactivated my account. It's been two years since I started my original CMP journey, documented here on the forums of course. I sold that computer shortly after my modifications because I was fed up...
  3. Manzana

    Time Machine over WiFi - Backup Failed

    I have a Mac Pro 5,1 running Mojave 10.14.6 connected over ethernet that I'm using to share a disk for my two laptops to use as Time Capsule. My 11" MBA (2015) running Mojave 10.14.6 - no problem. I pointed time machine to the shared disk and in less than 12 hours it completed a sparsebundle...
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    old macbook as backup and media server

    Hello everyone, So I have an early 2008 white pre-unibody macbook which I have upgraded over the years to have 4GBs of ram and an 256 GB ssd. I also have a spare 500gb hhd which i could install in place of the cd drive to give it some extra storage place (approx. 750GB overall). Nevertheless...