How to set up an external drive as a Time Machine destination for multiple Macs<article>
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<p>Ed Bernard has all the right pieces, but wasn’t able to find a straightforward explanation for backing up his three Macs to a single external drive that he’s attached to one of them. Here’s how to do that.</p><p>First, Attach the hard drive to the Mac you want to act as the Time Machine “hub.” This should be a desktop machine and, preferably, one that’s connected via ethernet to your home network. Wi-Fi will work, but the amount of backup data passing over even the latest, fastest Wi-Fi flavor may bog down other simultaneous network activity.</p><p>Even if only your Time Machine destination Mac connects to a base station via ethernet, that still halves the amount of backup data that passes over Wi-Fi—it’s transmitted from a Mac to the base station over Wi-Fi, and then from the base station via ethernet to the destination Mac.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3192942/macs/how-to-set-up-an-external-drive-as-a-time-machine-destination-for-multiple-macs.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to set up an external drive as a Time Machine destination for multiple Macs
