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

Phil Nash — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:30:57 +0000

@Mariano,

Thanks for your comments. Actually I thought I did go to some lengths to explain why you should use en0. In the first paragraph under the heading "Finding the MAC Address" I spend the whole second half discussing it.
I use italics and everything :-)
Anyway, glad you got it working.

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

Mariano Asselborn — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:57:48 +0000

This is fantastic. There is so much confusing trash out there and using this writing really helped me. I have one suggestion though, when grabbing the mac address to form the sparsebundle filename, you mention that you need to use en0, but in my case, my logic said "wait a minute, you will be using wireless, so use the wireless adapter's mac address instead", and, of course, it fails... so to save people some time, maybe you can add the note in the article itself to use en0 regardless of how you'll access your NAS. I know the answer is in the comments, but there are quite a lot of them...

Again, thanks for this writing!

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

QJ — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:14:22 +0000

Hey Phil,

Your method works like gold for creating the backup file, and regular backups for 4-5 months. Then, after disconnecting the backup drive (last time I cut the power over Christmas) I get the dreaded 'error 45':

Time Machine could not complete the backup.
The backup disk image "/Volumes/Storage-1/Marge.sparsebundle" could not be created (error 45).

Now I cannot access my 150Gb Time Machine backup file! I know that I can delete it and start over using your method, but I should not have to do this every few months. Why does Time Machine fail to reconnect with a familiar image after being disconnected? I can read the drive's folders and other files not problem but TM is not happy. Funny thing is: TM accepts the drive as a backup resource, but throws the error during validation.

Is there any way to 'fix' the Time Machine connection with the sparsebundle?

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

DamonJM — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:14:56 +0000

Thank you!

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

Luis Yax — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:38:45 +0000

Great info, it worked great. I wrote a script in case you have to do this fixe on several Macs like i did, here is the link: http://yaxzone.blogspot.com/2011/12/apple-time-machine-and-error-45-when.html

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

Kathy M — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:41:35 +0000

I read a number of web pages on the topic, and though they were all similar to this, this was the only one that had the information I needed to understand how this works and finally make it work. Thanks.

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

El Manu — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:41:45 +0000

Man, just a simple word : thanks !!

For people like me that use a Buffalo LinkStation Mini : disable the TimeMachine function on the Linkstation and follow the text above.
(My mistake was I used the wifi mac address !)

Thanks again !

N R comments on We Don't Need No Stinking Garbage Collection

N R — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:25:52 +0000

@Anish Kumar

If by 'novice programmer' you mean not a computer scientist, i.e. you have no concept of how to manage data and thus memory, then its probably for the best if you stay away from writing iOS apps anyway...

Phil Nash comments on Unit Testing in C++ and Objective-C just got easier

Phil Nash — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:12:43 +0000

@jdonson I've been using it with CruiseControl.Net. I wrote a custom XSLT to render the XML reporter. Unfortunately the XSLT itself belongs to my current "employer" - but it's not terribly involved.

Alternatively there is a Junit XML reporter which CC/.Net can supposedly use directly.
I say "supposedly" because I have not had a chance to try it out yet. I believe there is an issue logged against it on GitHub so it may need some work.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by git integration?

As for rpmbuild, I have no experience of that - but in any of these cases (or, indeed, any others) you would be very welcome to help out.

You can take your own fork from the github master: catch-lib.net and feed back pull requests - or we could discuss other forms of collaboration if you prefer.

My personal input has stalled a bit recently as I've had to take on addition projects - but hope to get back onto it in the next few weeks.

I'll drop you an email to discuss further.

jdonson comments on Unit Testing in C++ and Objective-C just got easier

jdonson — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:23:50 +0000

Does this integrate well with rpmbuild/git/cruisecontrol?

How can I help this project?