Ray Gardener from from Orbital Technologies has been in touch to let us know about updates to the Orbital Backup Configuration application. Read on for details.
Andrew told us about this application here, which provides a way to back up your Mac machines to WHS2011.
First, from their website, a little information about Orbital Technologies:
Orbital provides expert software development services to many of the world’s top software companies. We are a software outsourcing partner of choice for development on Windows, Mac, UNIX, Linux and many mobile device platforms.
Leveraging our expert development team, we design and develop a wide range of commercial-grade software products for many of the world’s foremost software companies, such as Adobe, Microsoft and others.
We specialize in developing innovative software for other software and technology companies, working as an outsourced extension of our clients’ in-house development teams. We have a vast technical skillset and extensive experience developing custom software solutions across a range of platforms and technologies, including Windows, Mac, UNIX, Linux, .Net, J2EE, J2SE, J2ME, Apple iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch), Android, Windows Phone, Palm webOS, Symbian OS and other mobile embedded systems.
We provide solutions to extremely complex software problems that others cannot solve. We connect with our clients by understanding their needs and supporting them during the entire lifespan of a product. We believe that anything is possible and work with our clients to help them achieve their software objectives.
And now about Backup Configuration, their WHS2011 add-in:
Up until now, Mac users connecting to a Windows server had to either forego remote Time Machine backup altogether, or else resort to complicated set-up involving disk utilities and “sparsebundles”.
Not any more.
Orbital Technologies, which has a long-standing partnership with Microsoft, has created an add-in to ease the configuration burden of setting up an Apple Mac computer’s Time Machine to use a backup location on the server.
This free ‘Orbital Backup Configuration’ add-in can be used to quickly and effortlessly set up Windows Home Server 2011, Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials as a target disk for Mac OS X Time Machine Backups.
Now for today’s update:
In response to some of the early feedback on the Orbital Backup Configuration Add-in for Windows Home Server 2011 and for Windows Small Business Server Essentials 2011:
For Snow Leopard only
The Orbital Backup Configuration is supported only for OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). OS X 10.7 (Lion) support is unavailable due to a software conflict between Microsoft Launchpad and Lion Launchpad, and any workarounds would adversely modify the default Lion user experience.Why we released for Snow Leopard when Lion is out
Although Lion is the current shipping version of OS X, we had enough requests from Snow Leopard users for the Orbital Backup Configuration to justify releasing it at this time.Current Snow Leopard issues
Issues affecting Snow Leopard users are being studied and we are collecting more information as it becomes available. Please feel free to let us know if you are experiencing issues with the Orbital Backup Configuration software on Snow Leopard.
On their website, they confirm that they are planning on releasing a Lion-compliant version, but have no date where it is expected yet. Stay tuned for updates…and if you have a Snow Leopard Mac in the house with a WHS2011, go ahead and download this as it is free!
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