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I wonder if it's possible to connect from my MacBook at home to my iMac at work, using SSH and then bind 'whateverport' to my Time Capsule (placed at work) so I can backup my MacBook from home as well?

I often SSH in to my work computer to monitor and transfer files, but this time I need to acces the time capsule. It feels like ssh L 1201:127.0.0.1:548 me@mydomain.se isn't too far from it?

This would definitely make my weekend!

slhck
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thor
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I am testing out this simple bash script:

https://github.com/hypery2k/timemachine-ssh

it works, but, when I am working from remote, performance seems to be awfully slow, far slower than the amount of data ssh is sending. It works better when I am on the same network as the TM server (where tunneling wouldn't be necessary) but I think it is just because I have much higher bandwidth. I don't think it's a matter of sheer amount of data you're sending, it seems that sending many small files (like the ones a software developer modifies every minute) definitely kills performance, more than it would be reasonable.

Riccardo Cossu
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If you need time machine like backup to remote server (big ping), it is really better to use third party tool. http://immortalfiles.com/ is doing it and it will cost you nothing. Also much better inclusion/exclusion when default time machine.

Will
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