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10.7: Enable Time Machine on unsupported network drives
Here's an alternate solution I posted about a month ago. I have a netgear stora NAS which wouldn't work under Lion. I found that there is a command line utility in 10.7 for Time Machine and it is possible to use that to make smb or afp mounted external drives work with Time Machine. The solution I posted even shows how to create a sparse disk image to hold time machine backups and how to set size limits for that so you don't fill up your entire drive with backups. ---
Hank http://www.hamsoftengineering.com
10.7: Enable Time Machine on unsupported network drives
You mean here? http://forum1.netgear.com/showpost.php?p=363884&postcount=24
10.7: Enable Time Machine on unsupported network drives
Yep, that's it. The only thing I would change from your summary is step 2a. You are creating the sparse bundle directly on the external drive. For my NAS I couldn't. I was getting errors. I had to create the sparse bundle on the local drive and then copy it to the remote drive. Everything else looks good. ---
Hank http://www.hamsoftengineering.com
10.7: Enable Time Machine on unsupported network drives
Very interesting. I was aiming to skip the "copy" stage because it seemed unnecessary.
10.7: Enable Time Machine on unsupported network drives
I can also confirm that the copy is needed (at least for my Linksys router's SMB share.) In fact I suspect that's part of the reason you can't set up TM directly on these shares anymore. Edited on Sep 27, '11 12:34:41PM by everkleer80
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