Using WD Anywhere Backup wirelessly

[jay c]

I have a MyBook World Edition network drive attached to my router via ethernet. I have four Mac OS X clients who connect to the same router wirelessly. I created a server connection to the MyBook and installed WD Anywhere Backup on all four clients. On three of the Macs, the backups start and run fine until I reboot, then I have to start the backup process manually. On the fourth Mac, there is no problem at all. The computer starts up, connects to the MyBook, and begins backing up files. It looks to me like Anywhere Backup is starting and failing before the wireless and server connections are ready. Is there some way to force this service to wait a certain number of seconds or minutes before starting to give the wireless time to get connected?

Or do you think there might be some other problem that I need to fix.

I'm a Mac newbie, so please be as explicit as possible. Use baby talk if you feel it's necessary.

 

[djackmac]

I'm anonymous Mac Tech on technibble. I'll copy and paste the response I left you there in case you missed it..

If all the machines are running 10.5 or newer just configure time machine on all Macs and let them do their own backups. I guarantee it will do a hell of a lot better job of backing up then the WD software. Its like having an image that gets updated every hour of every machine and once the initial backup is done you won't even notice the incremental backups going in the background. Not to mention you set it and forget it. The only hitch is the Windows machine will need a separate backup drive of its own because time machine will need the drive formatted as HFS+(journaled), but thats a small price to pay for the convenience that it will provide. An even better more professional way of doing it is to configure a machine with 10.5 or 10.6 server to handle the backups. We have that going at the shop and mine or anyone elses drive could crash tomorrow and we'd be up and going in no time like nothing ever happened.