Two books Microsoft Windows Home Server Unleashed by Paul McFedries and Windows Home Server Bible by Greg Kettell / Jennifer Ackerman Kettell have articles devoted to using MAC equipment with the Windows Home Server.

Do a google on WHS MAC or WHS APPLE and several links show up. Here's a link from Home Server Hacks too:

http://www.homeserverhacks.com/2008/01/windows-home-server-vs-apple-time.html

meerkat said: There is nothing in place on the MSS to automate the process of backing up from a Mac, sadly. Personally, I use Chronosync (http://www.econtechnologies.com/site/Pages/ChronoSync/chrono_overview.html) to sync a Mac that I have on my local network. It is pretty similar to SyncBack, a great piece of software for Windows. Once I paid the $30 and got the sync setup, it works well. I chose some software that syncs vs creates a backup so all the files could be accessed externally. One problem I have is that there are 5 or 6 files that continue to get synced that have over 260 characters in their names, which causes MSS to alert me that duplication is failing. I am trying to filter those out, but besides that, works pretty well!

First of all, meerkat, thanks for showing me this application.   I consider myself an Apple fan, and I actually didn't know about this program.  I'm currently using Time Machine to back up my Mac to an external hard drive - I like backing up the whole thing, in lieu of a more robust setup, but that may change in the future...

So basically, you're saying that a Mac can read the MSS hard drive, which is good.  Can it "see" the whole drive?  Or do you have to partition off a specific area?  Or, can it only read certain folders?

And... if you can partition off a portion of the drive, you could use Time Machine, no?  I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. 

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