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Store Time Machine backups on an AFP NAS
It's a hell of a lot easier than that. Just enter: defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
in Terminal, and your network drives will show up when you go to pick a drive in Time Machine. All caveats about doing something that Apple doesn't seem to want you to do apply, though.
Store Time Machine backups on an AFP NAS
Wow - now that is exactly what I was looking for!
Store Time Machine backups on an AFP NAS
Agreed. The preference change makes this whole procedure not really needed anymore. I had thrown this all together pretty quickly after Leopard came out, and before the hidden preference was discovered.
first hint worked here, not the second
I have an iomega NAS server here, and when I tried the "unsupported = 1" prefs change the NAS volumes appeared in Time Machine but I systematically got an error in creating the backup files; on the contrary your longer step-by-step worked perfectly :-) |
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