[smartin684]

Does anyone have any information on Time Machine being able do backup to a NAS drive connected via Airport? It would be great if it did, since I wouldnt have to dig up my external drive everytime I want to do a backup of my Powerbook.

[drmbb]

I'd tentatively say yes, going by Apple's features for time machine
"You can designate just about any HFS+ formatted FireWire or USB drive connected to a Mac as a Time Machine backup drive. Time Machine can also back up to another Mac running Leopard with Personal File Sharing, Leopard Server, or Xsan storage devices.[/i}"

[Mike_Atamian1]

Hmmmm...that means I can't use a second internal hard drive for backup?

[Typhoon14]

Why would you backup to an internal drive? All this would protect against would be a hardware failure of the first drive. The backup would be vulnerable to corruption-causing software issues, power surges, any issue with the internal components causing excessive heat or fire, and of course theft, house fire and any other number of issues. It really defeats the whole purpose in having a backup.

[griffman]

Backing up to an internal drive isn't a bad step in an overall backup strategy. Ideally, you'd be running RAID, of course. But barring that, having your first line of defense for drive #1's death be drive #2 in the same unit, that's not bad.
But yes, beyond that, you'll want to also backup to something removable. I backup to an internal drive multiple times a day, and to an external drive daily or thereabouts. Once a week I backup to another drive that we keep at my wife's office.
-rob.

[Mike_Atamian1]

That's exactly what I am protecting against. My experience has been the hard drive fails before any other part of the computer. I want my user files backed up internally, and ultimately to DVD or an external hard drive.