tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382212051821902995.post4756866064582560923..comments2023-04-13T13:36:49.640+01:00Comments on Expanding horizons: Time Machine Wireless Backup Continued...Adam Cohen-Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12286496556944495325noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382212051821902995.post-80062413339942203322009-03-17T17:06:00.000+00:002009-03-17T17:06:00.000+00:00For what it's worth, I've got an IOCell 351UNE per...For what it's worth, I've got an IOCell 351UNE personal NAS device that I wanted to try out. My current time machine backup is a 1TB drive in an ICY Dock firewire enclosure.<BR/><BR/>Since I had read that TimeMachine wouldn't allow you to create a disk on a NAS device but would use it if you created it locally and copied it over, I decided to try a quick test.<BR/><BR/>I took my existing TimeMachine disk out of the ICY Dock and put it in the IOCell. I had already installed the IOCell app that let me mount it. It came right up and started working without any other changes. I can view my backup history all the way back to December 08. I forced a current backup and verified that the files are out there.<BR/><BR/>The IOCell enclosure is currently $65 from Newegg.com. It has a USB interface so you can configure TimeMachine to use it the normal way. After that, you can just plug it into the network, installed the Mac drivers and you're in business.<BR/><BR/>For people who don't have a second Mac, it might be an easier and fairly cheap option.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382212051821902995.post-91421002263479129672008-12-17T10:42:00.000+00:002008-12-17T10:42:00.000+00:00@Valentin: Your setup is slightly different than t...@Valentin: Your setup is slightly different than the one I know about -- you can share your firewire drive over AFP and get Time Machine to find it more easily that way. Try adding an empty file called <I>.com.apple.timemachine.supported</I> at the root of your firewire drive and see if that helps.<BR/><BR/>@Anonymous: I don't quite understand what you want to achieve here. With your existing system and no additional firewire drive, you can back up your mini using Time Machine to an SMB share on your Linux server. Check out my main <A HREF="http://adamcohenrose.blogspot.com/2008/02/time-machine-wireless-backup-without.html" REL="nofollow">Time Machine over SMB entry</A> for details. Alternatively, you could attach a new firewire drive to your mini and Time Machine will just work.Adam Cohen-Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12286496556944495325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382212051821902995.post-42377869072118452772008-12-17T00:31:00.000+00:002008-12-17T00:31:00.000+00:00My Network: I have a server with 400GB drive space...My Network: I have a server with 400GB drive space running Linux, and a 2 VMWare guests (iFolder and a Cyrus Mail Server) <BR/>From here I share a work data drive, and a media drive via SMB so that my wife Vista PC can attach and so I can use my XP tablet and my Mac Mini.with this setup am I better off attaching the external drive to my linux server and backing up to a new SMB share of that disk + local linux backups or can I get timemachine to back up mounted SMB volumes from my Mac? and attach the disk via firewire to my mini?<BR/><BR/><BR/>WiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382212051821902995.post-86711621645378448482008-04-19T07:22:00.000+01:002008-04-19T07:22:00.000+01:00Thank you for your detailed explanations. I have a...Thank you for your detailed explanations. I have a request for additional information: I have a G5 with a big hard-drive attached to it via firewire. When activating file sharing I can access the hard drive from my MBP Laptop using my wireless network. However, the hard-drive is not proposed as a destination for Time Machine on the MBP. Of course I have activated the support for "UnsupportedNetworkVolumes" but I seem to missing something. Thanks if you can help. Valentin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382212051821902995.post-5480512741262467752008-04-06T17:01:00.000+01:002008-04-06T17:01:00.000+01:00See update at the end of the blog post -- Time Mac...See update at the end of the blog post -- Time Machine will now reclaim space in sparsebundles, so it won't delete all your backups when it runs out of room.Adam Cohen-Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12286496556944495325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382212051821902995.post-21630979323334731012008-03-27T23:17:00.000+00:002008-03-27T23:17:00.000+00:00I suspect that the underlying partition format is ...I suspect that the underlying partition format is irrelevant as it's the handling of the sparsebundle that is the issue here. Having said that, please post any results you get as I'm sure people will find them useful!<BR/><BR/>Has anyone tried the Time Machine and Airport Update with SMB shares? Does this solve the problem with reclaiming space in sparsebundles?Adam Cohen-Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12286496556944495325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382212051821902995.post-91387300578073221832008-03-27T13:01:00.000+00:002008-03-27T13:01:00.000+00:00It seems like every post I read this is the same r...It seems like every post I read this is the same result in the end. The disk fills up and all backups are lost. I am curious if this is due to the underlying partition not being an HFS+ Partition? I have a linux box I may slap another drive in it and see what happens when it fills up. I will just create a small partition as HFS+ and try and mount it and then share it out using AFP/Avahi. Just curious if anyone else has tried this with any luck?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382212051821902995.post-49822389973017079502008-03-25T21:45:00.000+00:002008-03-25T21:45:00.000+00:00David's approach gets past the creation of the spa...David's approach gets past the creation of the sparsebundle on 10.5.2 -- cheers David! However, the problem that Felix described is that Time Machine won't reclaim space when deleting old backups (the sparsebundle doesn't get smaller even though files have been removed from it).Adam Cohen-Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12286496556944495325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382212051821902995.post-28206668896396966572008-03-25T20:38:00.000+00:002008-03-25T20:38:00.000+00:00Just to clarify, does David's sparsebundle-with-de...Just to clarify, does David's sparsebundle-with-defined-size approach get around the problem described by Felix?Kevin Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07835502147986800665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382212051821902995.post-83728451884951767672008-03-20T01:06:00.000+00:002008-03-20T01:06:00.000+00:00I took your "copy the sparsebundle file" bit of in...I took your "copy the sparsebundle file" bit of info and ran with it. Actually, you don't need to copy the file, just its name. Once you have the name, use disk utility to create a new sparsebundle at the size you need, which will necessarily limit the amount of your back up that can be used.<BR/><BR/>I just copied the resulting dmg file to you back up (I just dropped it on, even though it's a different hierarchy) and Time Machine was able to find it and started working.<BR/><BR/>I'm using a MacBook 2.0 Ghz, Leopard 10.5.2 backing up to an HP MediaVault over a wireless G network (Microsoft MN-720 base station I've had for years, and it's been flawless).<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the help.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382212051821902995.post-19462491836232737182008-03-10T08:25:00.000+00:002008-03-10T08:25:00.000+00:00I saw a post somewhere (can't find it now) in whic...I saw a post somewhere (can't find it now) in which someone started the backup and copied the resulting sparsebundle file before the backup finished with an error. Somehow this got round the error -- I'm not sure how and I didn't try it, as it sounded even more dodgy that my current system!<BR/><BR/>Alternatively, borrow someone else's Mac for a few minutes to get yourself set up :-)Adam Cohen-Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12286496556944495325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382212051821902995.post-67677912144780604512008-03-10T03:07:00.000+00:002008-03-10T03:07:00.000+00:00What about those of us without a second Mac?What about those of us without a second Mac?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05290501608802676662noreply@blogger.com