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10.5: Make Time Machine work with AirPort and AFP disks
Authored by: boudros on Dec 11, '07 05:15:21AM
Actually I had to specify a type for the key, so that it was taken in account:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes -bool yes

otherwise "defaults" wrote a string, and didn't interpret the new sibling correctly (on my machine anyway).
I now use an afp volume with time machine, but watch the disk space used by the diskimage !!

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10.5: Make Time Machine work with AirPort and AFP disks
Authored by: rthompson on Feb 19, '08 02:49:20PM

I had my USB drive on my APE working with Time Machine under 10.5.1 very reliably. I then upgraded to 10.5.2 and it continued to work. A few days ago however, I needed to suspend a backup operation, and when I came back to restart it, time machine refused to mount the disk image on the drive. After several attempts to get it to connect with no luck I decided to delete the image (the sparce image file) and start over. Now TM refuses to create a new image.

BTW, I tried the suggestions to start a backup with the drive directly connected, then stop the backup, move the sparce image file, reconnect the drive to the APE base station to get it working. I tried this again, but I think Apple has changed something in 10.5.2, because when directly connected TM no longer creates a sparce image file. Instead it seems to be creating a hierarchal file structure on the backup folder to mirror the source.

Anybody else seen this behavior after upgrading to 10.5.2?



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