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You can switch on encryption if you’d like by checking “Encrypt Backup” as this will only create a sparse volume on the shared folder and not encrypt the entire drive.

Click on ‘Select Disk…’ and you should see the folder you shared in Step 3.

Open System Preferences -> Time Machine.

Step 4: Set up Time Machine on the Satellite Macs Enter a limit if you want, this will be a total limit for all the Satellite Macs that you will be connecting.

Check ‘Share as a Time Machine backup destination’.

Ctrl + Click (right click) on the drive you just added and select ‘Advanced Options’.

You should now see it under ‘Shared Folders’.

Select the “Shared Time Machine” folder and click ‘Add’.

Click Options and make sure “Share files and folders using SMB” is checked.

Make sure that File Sharing is checked.Create a folder called “Shared Time Machine” on the drive.This step uses the new feature on macOS High Sierra.

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Step 3: Set the drive as a shared Time Machine drive on the Hub Mac Your Hub Mac will now use the disk as a Time Machine backup volume.

Open System Preferences -> Time Machine.

If you require encryption, consider backing up to a separate hard drive. Note that you cannot encrypt the backup as doing so will encrypt the entire drive. If you need the Hub Mac to be backed up to this hard drive on Time Machine, you’ll want to set it up before adding the Satellite Macs. Step 2: Set up a local Time Machine backup

Make sure format is set to “Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)”.

Select the correct volume that you want to erase.

Open Disk utility in Applications -> Disk Utility.

Connect the external hard drive that you want to use as a shared Time Machine Drive to the Hub Mac.

You’ll want to make sure the drive is formatted correctly before proceeding. I’ve recently purchased an iMac that plays the role, but you can use any other Macs, included old MacBooks that may be lying around unused. All the other Macs that are going to be backing up to the Hub Mac will be called the ”Satellite Macs. I will be referring to this Mac as the ”Hub Mac” for the rest of this guide. You can use any Mac that is preferably permanently switched on at home for this.

Thankfully that functionality is now integrated into High Sierra. Sharing Time Machine disks on a Mac that’s always on your NetworkĪpple has always provided an option to share a mounted hard drive as a Time Machine Disk if you had macOS Server running on the host Mac. I’ve tried connecting a hard drive to several routers and have had two fail within a few months, maybe the fact that most of these routers do not allow the hard drives to go into an idle state has something to do with it – but I digress. The true automatic solutions for portables came from either buying Apple’s Time Capsule, connecting a hard drive/NAS to a router that officially/unofficially supports Time Machine, or runing macOS Server on a separate mac that is switched on 24/7.Īpple’s Time Capsule has not been updated for years and I would not recommend buying one at this point. Forgetting to plug the large external hard drive in for two weeks means you can potentially lose two weeks worth of data. You have to remember to plug in the large external hard drive periodically overnight for backups to occur.

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If you’re using a portable MacBook/Air/Pro, then the experience is a bit more clunky. You just have to leave a large external hard drive plugged in and the operating system will take care of the backups for you.

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If you’re using an iMac, Mac Mini or Mac Pro desktop computer, the experience is pretty seamless. If you’re using a Mac, Time Machine is a great out-of-the-box solution for automatic on-site backups that you don’t have to think about. It’s always prudent to adopt a multi-pronged solution with on-site and off-site backups. One of the first things you should invest in as a photographer is a robust backup solution.