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by: Dan Bargen
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Time Machine and network shares
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Sep 17, 2008 1:21 PM
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Can Time Machine backup to a network share?
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Re: Time Machine and network shares
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Sep 17, 2008 1:23 PM
in response to: Ge0ph
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No. The exception is if the network share is a locally connected HDD to a Leopard equipped iMac.
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Re: Time Machine and network shares
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Sep 17, 2008 1:35 PM
in response to: -(.)^(.)-
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That's too bad. I guess I can't use my existing NAS for a backup device for my new/first Mac.
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Re: Time Machine and network shares
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Sep 17, 2008 2:00 PM
in response to: Ge0ph
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Sorry, I should have stated that, except as Time Capsule, a NAS is not supported by Apple for use with Time Machine. There are hacks, but you are on your own when you run into problems. You can try a search under the Time Machine forum to narrow down the hits. I haven't seen a post regarding this topic for a couple of weeks.
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Re: Time Machine and network shares
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Sep 17, 2008 2:11 PM
in response to: Ge0ph
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as mentioned backup to NAS are not supported but there are hacks. check out this mac os x hint for example. read all the comments. some people report that simply running the following terminal command is enough.
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
However, do understand that if you use any of these hacks you are on your own and there are no promises that it will work or that you won't run into problems.
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Re: Time Machine and network shares
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Sep 17, 2008 3:02 PM
in response to: V.K.
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I'm not above hacking but this is my first Mac and I want to use it as it is intended to be used. At least at first. Maybe after a bit I will play with this hack.
BTW, I am very experenced with Windows (my job is to maintain Windows servers and workstations and the network) so I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty. I also work with AS/400 and Linux.
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Re: Time Machine and network shares
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Nov 29, 2008 7:25 PM
in response to: Ge0ph
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I have used Linux servers to host Time Machine as well as AFP shares. While its a little bit of work, the end result is perfect (or atleast very very close - I have zero issues).
Check out this link on how to setup on an Ubuntu machine....
http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/06/ubuntu-as-mac-file-server-and-time-machine-volume/
This one article sums up a lot of other information I obtained when researching using Ubuntu before I got a Mac Mini to use with OS X Server.
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Re: Time Machine and network shares
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Dec 12, 2008 12:28 AM
in response to: V.K.
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defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
This command line worked for me.
Make shure that your time machine prefereces is not open when you do it.
Just launch Time Machine Preferences and Voila!
My NAS is a Lacie 2Big 1.5TB.
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Re: Time Machine and network shares
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Dec 29, 2008 12:06 AM
in response to: ZorrowQuebec
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Kudos to you, my friend! This is exactly the info I needed. I even have the same Lacie drive as you.
However, although Time Machine excepts the device it says it is "unable to create backup" in this location. Was there some trick you used to make it work? I've got the Lacie Ethernet agent set to automount the drive, and it showed up in the list, so I don't know what the issue is exactly. Any clues?
P.S. - I'm currently backing up w/Time Machine to my old FW800 external drive, thought this was supposed to be soley for my Aperture Vault. Upon trying to redirect Aperture to make a vault on the network drive, I saw that it ALSO doesn't support network drives. I don't want to have to go to the trouble of making a sparse image to mount every time I want to backup new imports to the vault, so do you have a command line work-around for this issue as well?
P.P.S. - If I have to make a sparse image for Time Machine on the network drive, I can deal- the constant/continuous backup feature isn't all that important in this case.
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