Hi there! I use Time Machine to backup to my WD My Book Live 3TB. Now, I bought a second WD My Book Live 3TB to create a physically separated backup. I think of two solutions, but I can’t get them to work:
(A) Make Time Machine backup directly to the second drive. The drive is not in the local network and as far as I know Time Machine does not work via WebDAV or FTP. Does anyone have a solution?
or
(B) Make the two Live Books sync. I thought it was possible using safepoints, but one drive doesn’t see the other because they are not in the same local network. How to do this?
Does anyone know how to solve this with either solution (A) or (B) or a new solution I haven’t thought of? Thank you very much!
Unfortunately there is no supported way to do an automatic remote backup, but you should be able to access the files in the remote My Book through the wd2go webpage and copy the files manually.
Yes, safepoints are only meant to be made on the local network. You could look for third party programs that allow you to automatically backup the files from the remote public folder mapped using the WD2Go webpage, but I cannot guarantee that it will work, you can also copy the files manually. Check the link below for more information on how to access your My Book Live files remotely.