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10.5: Set up Time Machine on a NAS in three easy steps
Authored by: MJL on Jul 04, '08 03:11:54PM

After about three days of playing with the sparsebundle and time machine, I finally got it to work. The key for me was changing the computer name in the System Preferences - Sharing to a name that did not include spaces, symbols, etc. (just numbers and letters) and keeping the name of under 8 characters

Before this, I kept getting an "The backup disk image could not be mounted"
error.

Also, I've read that you should remove the backup from Spotlight. It helps makes things go much faster. Not sure if this is the case or not, but I did it. Go to System Preferences - Spotlight, then under the "privacy" tab, click on the Plus sign and add the backup under devices. It's not critical (at least not for me), but it may help.

I'm still in the process of backing up, so far 13GB out of 27GB are backed up. I'm keeping my fingers crossed until its done, but at least, I'm not geting the can't mount error any more.

Good luck.

My setup - MacBook backing up to a HP Media Smart Server over a wireless g network.



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10.5: Set up Time Machine on a NAS in three easy steps
Authored by: MJL on Jul 15, '08 08:21:05PM

So, the computer ran for about three hours and then a black screen popped up that forced me to restart the computer.

Well, it sounds like a great idea, but I haven't gotten it to work. We ended up using an old USB hard drive to backup the computer.

I might try it again at some point, but I've been looking at some third party backup programs. They seem to offer backup to a networked drive, so I might try that. However, I would really prefer to use TM, but this is too frustrating. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Hopefully, someone will figure it out.... if you do, please let us know.



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