One reason to buy my Mac was the integrated backup solution Time Machine . This is the only automated backups are actually carried out.
Time Machine supported as a storage media really only external USB and Firewire hard drives. In a household with multiple computers is a central network storage (NAS), but often useful, since so many users can access network shares on without the need for a server to be running. In addition the current NAS devices and enhanced features such as iTunes and video streaming.
I chose the Western Digital NAS My Book World Edition decided.
To make it Mac for backup via Time Machine to use the most, you have to command the terminal network share for Time Machine to make visible the following:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences \ TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
Time Machine has recognized this, it can come to the problem when you save that Time Machine backup is not the image can create. This "Sparsebundle" but you can manually (via a Terminal command) on his Mac also create and then copy it to the release.
CD tm mkdir tm; cd tm HFS+J -volname "sicherungMac" \ hdiutil create-size 300g-fs HFS + J-volname "sicherungMac" \ "MacName_0016cbac5432.sparsebundle"
The name of the Sparsebundles shall be the name of the Mac and its MAC address from. Both can be determined in the terminal.
Mac you get the name with the command uname -n (without. local). The MAC address provides the command ifconfig en0|grep ether and is in the name of Sparsebundles without double points indicated.
uname-n macName.local grep ether ifconfig en0 | grep ether : 32 ether 00: 16: cb: ac: 54: 32
To copy the SparseBundles on the network can share the Finder on the menu Go -> Connect to Server in Mac advertise that.
Then you still need Time Machine in System Preferences and enable only used to select the volume for the backup. After this start after 120 seconds, the first backup. this was successful, one should perhaps define large files such as video or virtual machine as an exception for Time Machine.
Sources:
ct '- 5 / 2009 Save the Net
apple nose - use Time Machine with network drives
September 5th, 2009 at 12:59 am
encountered Bin already on some blogs, which declare how to save on NAS with Time Machine. I also use the WD my book world edition II, however, I have the problem that I have not the sparse images on the top level of the servers can store (for that I'm right even when no admin). can you help me there?
September 21st, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Already after the first entry is .. in the Time Machine the MyB displayed and I select it, but unfortunately you can then backup image is always written directly to the Public folder. This I do not want to for two reasons. 1) All users can access it. 2) The free memory for the backup is therefore always free the entire memory of the MyB ...
I have also created a "Sparse .." but I can not tell Time Machine which they should and to use this one on the upper level, I can not also store special only on the second (public).
Most of all I would but if I could put that image in my quasi-protected (private) sector.
Merci and greeting
Jens
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:13 pm
You can access the WD My Book World Edition via ssh access (see documentation). However, you should read the English documents, since the ssh code has also been translated into German and therefore not working. Using ssh, you have that bundle access to all levels of NAS and can then send scp to copy the sparse there, where you want it. You should, however, that path can only choose you if you run with Unix (on the My Book is also a small Unix operating system) have knowledge about something.
April 10th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
Hi,
let the trick Time Machine running on NFS is Prima. Works for me (1GE Buffalo LinkStation with chopped Debian Linux) properly for a year.
But what if you want to restore the system eg to disk crash (see Mac Help Restore the entire system "). I could try out, unfortunately, not yet, but fear that in the Intallationsphase the little trick with "TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes not work!?
Has anyone tried it? I would like my iMac, namely conversion to 2TB.
Greeting
Sven
April 11th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
From her understanding, I would say that the network hard disk should be greater equal to the plate in the Mac. With the 120 GB drive in my Mac minis I needed I never have to worry about it. The big video files I have on another partition of the network hard drive. They change little, so I also from time to time with a cheap USB disk safe.
So I'll continue to cope with my little internal plate. If the rich place in the NAS should not, I can expand the WD, the plates still on 2 GB.