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djpaubes

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#62260 2-Jun-2010 16:43
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Hey guys,

I've got a HFS formatted disk pluged into a windows 7 machine which is pretty much my file server and does a bunch of other things. I want to be able to send my time machine backups to the disk rather than having to plug the thing in every time. Is anyone doing something similar? I just get the error it cant create the sparsebundle.. follwed a few links. I've setup W7 to read/write to the disk so that shoudnt be the problem.

Thoughts?


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phillw
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  #341074 12-Jun-2010 22:01
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djpaubes: Hey guys,

I've got a HFS formatted disk pluged into a windows 7 machine which is pretty much my file server and does a bunch of other things. I want to be able to send my time machine backups to the disk rather than having to plug the thing in every time. Is anyone doing something similar? I just get the error it cant create the sparsebundle.. follwed a few links. I've setup W7 to read/write to the disk so that shoudnt be the problem.

Thoughts?


Cheers,


Have you found a solution to this yet? I am not sure I follow your question. Are you trying to make it so that you backup your mac over the network to a Windows Server Share point rather than backing up to an external drive? 



djpaubes

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  #341268 13-Jun-2010 17:40
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phillw:
djpaubes: Hey guys,

I've got a HFS formatted disk pluged into a windows 7 machine which is pretty much my file server and does a bunch of other things. I want to be able to send my time machine backups to the disk rather than having to plug the thing in every time. Is anyone doing something similar? I just get the error it cant create the sparsebundle.. follwed a few links. I've setup W7 to read/write to the disk so that shoudnt be the problem.

Thoughts?


Cheers,


Have you found a solution to this yet? I am not sure I follow your question. Are you trying to make it so that you backup your mac over the network to a Windows Server Share point rather than backing up to an external drive? 


yes that is correct, sorry my question wasnt worded well.




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djpaubes

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  #380296 15-Sep-2010 19:57
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So I know people are backing up to windows home server? I've followed a similar process and setup an automount of the NFS share but its still not showing up in time machine, anyone out there?

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  #382867 21-Sep-2010 20:12
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JP

Seen a lot on the web about people doing this since 2008 with Leopard...and a lot of stability problems and hackarounds. These may have been ironed out...but I still wouldn't feel terribly comfortable with such a convoluted backup regime if you expect it to be bulletproof and useable when the critical event happens and you need to restore.

I didn't think this was officially supported or sanctioned by Apple (not necessarily a reason not to of course) so there's also the future, immeasurable risk of Apple or Microsoft deprecating something that allows this to work for you. You know, a Time Capsule with your external drive hooked in via USB mint not be such a bad option! 'o)

djpaubes

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  #383293 22-Sep-2010 18:22
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Just sick of pulling out the USB disk and plugging it in. I automate where possible. Maybe I'll add a timemachine into the mix at some stage. I do know that windows home server works very well with time machine so I guess that's also another option should I need it.

Looking forward to the next podcast!




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djpaubes

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  #423793 3-Jan-2011 19:52
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Just thought I would update this. I found the missing ingredient and I'm successfully backing up my macbook pro to a windows 7 PC on my network.

The first backup takes a fair while but its been working pretty well. I'm going to do a restore test in the next week or so. I'm also backing up over wireless N.

The link to the article is here

http://lifehacker.com/5685547/how-to-set-up-time-machine-to-back-up-to-a-networked-windows-or-linux-machine




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Aaroona
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  #424412 5-Jan-2011 21:07
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Install the 'secrets' pane for Mac, and then go into it via Sys Prefs and tick "use unsupported Shares" for time machine. I'm assuming this is the problem you're having? or is the problem after you've done that?

 
 
 

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  #424572 6-Jan-2011 10:46
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nar its all going good and well now. The secerts pane didnt work for me, not sure why.




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