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I recently bought a Mac mini and would like to turn it into a time machine backup server for other Macs on the same LAN. Is it possible to do this sort of thing reliably/seamlessly through OS X Lion, or am I better off upgrading to Lion Server? I have looked into it and apparently it is possible, but it is the reliability/usability that I am concerned with.

Ideally, I would like to configure another Mac on the home network to use the network disk for the TM backup and then just leave it and have it automatically proceed from that point onward with little to no babysitting.

If anyone has tried either or both if you wouldn't mind sharing your experience that will be greatly appreciated. I am just waiting on a new external hard drive otherwise I would be toying with all this by now.

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you should upgrade to lion server, that is the most seamless way to do time machine backups to a server. the lion server has a built in time machine server module that allows seamless setup and management of all time machine backups on th server.

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