So I’ve got my 1TB mybook running and *almost* everything seems to be working (itunes server is borked, but that’s probably as much apples fault as wd … another reason to stay away from apple products. w/dlna I don’t need the itunes server anyway). The last thing I want to do is back the mbl up to a couple of external drives that i keep off-site, and then rotate bringing them home to do incremental backups off the mbl. it sounds like safepoint can manage this - each backup will be a seperate job, and i can manually update the backups when i plug bring them home. what i’m wondering is, is the backup mountable and readable under windows, so i can go and grab individual files if i want, or restore it to a non wd drive by just doing a straight windows copy, or is the backup in some format that can only be read by doing a safepoint restore?
hmm, i may have accepted the solution too soon … my backup drive is an external usb-attached drive, connected to my pc. when i try to create a safepoint on it i get an error message from the dashboard saying it can’t access the share. is it not possible to create a safepoint this way?
never mind, i have a usb port on my router, when i attached the usb drive to that the mbl found it no problem. this is a better solution anyway since i don’t have to leave my pc on during the backup. i noticed some other flakiness w/the safepoint creation - it took a couple of tries for it to complete w/out error - but that may have been an issue w/the router and not the mbl.
