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Pato comments on Using a networked drive for Time Machine backups (on a Mac)

Pato — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:40:33 +0000

Phil, As you said, there is a lot of info on the web, yous is clear and simple and it works! BTW, Implementes with iomega home NAS. Thanks!

Ryan Walker comments on Using a networked drive for Time Machine backups (on a Mac)

Ryan Walker — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:17:51 +0000

Phil, thats fantastic, and worked a treat.

I was just about to go and buy a direct connected drive rather than my lacie network drive, but your simple guide has solved the problem.

Backup is busy grinding away as we speak.

I would say there is lots of information about this on the web with varying levels of 'geekness' but your post has provided a simple to follow concisely described solution.

Many thanks.

Ryan.

Jordane comments on Using a networked drive for Time Machine backups (on a Mac)

Jordane — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:32:57 +0000

Thanks! Worked like a charm after making the mistake of underestimating the naming convention.

Keep up the good work!

Stig comments on Using a networked drive for Time Machine backups (on a Mac)

Stig — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:39:15 +0000

Great post. Solved my problem. Thank you

J Weldin comments on Getting at pixel data from a UIImage for iPhone dev

J Weldin — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:19:20 +0000

Thanks for this, it works great except that in order to get values besides 1 or 0 I had to modify the line

return pixelData[y * width + x]/255;

return pixelData[y * width + x]/255.0;

to change the division to floating point division rather than integer division.

Taro van Gelderop comments on Using a networked drive for Time Machine backups (on a Mac)

Taro van Gelderop — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:32:03 +0000

Hi there!

I got a other problem that i cant find on the internet.

Easy: im trying to make a backup from our server.
This server is a windows pc that has a folder shared.

My mac has time machine so i wanne make a backup of this nework folder.

How to do?

Blaine comments on Using a networked drive for Time Machine backups (on a Mac)

Blaine — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:22:04 +0000

I have this working on one machine and not working on another. Both are Snow Leopard patched to the latest. On the one where it doesn't work, I just get "The Backup Disk is not available." The spelling of the hostname and MAC address (from en0) are fine. Kind of a head scratcher.

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Matt comments on Using a networked drive for Time Machine backups (on a Mac)

Matt — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:54:31 +0000

@MacArthur

You need to make sure you are connecting to your drive as so

cifs://x.x.x.x/folder1/folder2/

Where ever you put the sparse file you will need to connect to server to the same folder. i.e. you can't just use:

cifs://x.x.x.x/folder1/

Hope it helps!

Vincent G. comments on Using a networked drive for Time Machine backups (on a Mac)

Vincent G. — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:12:37 +0000

Phil,

I just wanted to sincerely thank you for your clear and concise instructions. As a brand new Mac user, I found this to be a daunting task until I stumbled across your site. Thanks once again from Montreal!

Vince
P.S. To anyone interested, I was able to succcesfully apply Phil's solution with my 2 TB Western Digital My Book Essential connected via USB to a Linksys WRT610N Router. I created a 500 GB NTFS partition solely for Time Capsule.