These are my notes based on Adam Pash's original post which didn't quite work as written for me:
An Easier Way to Set Up Time Machine to Back Up to a Networked Windows Computer
The whole process worked fine until the running of the shell script (step three in the original notes). Not being a native Unix user I forgot about assigning run privileges:
An Easier Way to Set Up Time Machine to Back Up to a Networked Windows Computer
The whole process worked fine until the running of the shell script (step three in the original notes). Not being a native Unix user I forgot about assigning run privileges:
- Setup a share on your Windows server: Create a folder then right click, select Properties, Share tab and add necessary permissions for your user(s).
- Mount the share in Mac OS: Finder, Go, Connect to server then type:
smb://[server name]/[share name]
This will mount the folder in Mac at /Volumes/[share name] - Enable Network shares for Time Machine: Type the following into Applications, Utilities, Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 - Download a shell script available in the original post at: http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2010/11/makeimage.sh
- Change to the Downloads directory and make it executable:
cd Downloads
chmod +x makeimage.sh - Run it with two parameters: the size of the backup share and the location:
sudo ./makeimage.sh 200 [location e.g. /Volumes/TimeMachine/]
Where 200 is the size in GB of the backup and [location... is the mount point of the network share mentioned above.
When done it should say "Finished! Happy backups!" - Open Time Machine and select the new share
Once again all credit goes to Adam Pash for his post and "sunkid" who wrote the makeimage script.
UPDATE: This does not work on Lion 10.7.3 where you get "The network drive does not support the required AFP features". I have found another page with an idea of how to approach it on Lion but haven't tried it myself:
http://beacon.wharton.upenn.edu/davekonopka/2011/07/connect-os-x-lion-time-machine-to-a-network-drive/
http://beacon.wharton.upenn.edu/davekonopka/2011/07/connect-os-x-lion-time-machine-to-a-network-drive/
Worked perfectly, thanks!
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