Tell me more ×  I've got a bunch of OS X laptops and desktops in
the office that I'd like to back up using the built-in Time
Machine. The first cut at this idea, buying a bunch of Time
Capsules, seems like a management nightmare. Is there a
reasonable way to run a server for a bunch of Time Machine
clients?  share|improve this question add comment  2 Answers  up
vote 3 down vote accepted  A couple of options, in order of
hack-ness:  Whatever you do, however, your backups should be to
redundant storage (this is doable for all the options above,
although Apple's software RAID is generally looked down upon),
and Time Machine backups should NOT be your only backup. FreeNAS
has some backup capabilities, I believe - you can attach a big
external USB drive and initiate a backup, and then send that
drive off-site, for example. With a Mac OS X server, you could
use Amanda (open source), Retrospect (shudder)...or...  Another
option which I concede doesn't answer your exact question, but I
think is highly relevant: Cras