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submitted by seth weintraub on thu, 11/08/2007 - 23:39.
we made a quick little automator application that removes the time machine restrictions on what kind of disk you can back up to. we found the tip here.
we are now happily backing up or leopard machines to the smb share on or dlink dns-323.
download the flux capacitor here. it is an automator action so you'll see the unix command that it runs. after you are done, voila! you'll see all of your shares in time machine - even wireless.
obviously apple closed this functionality for a reason so use at your own risk.
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nice - works for me!
submitted by anonymous coward (not verified) on fri, 11/09/2007 - 00:19.
nice - works for me!
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yep - works for me on smb
submitted by bill buckner (not verified) on fri, 11/09/2007 - 00:23.
yep - works for me on smb over wireless. pretty quick too!
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also works for me. why was
submitted by mick (not verified) on fri, 11/09/2007 - 00:23.
also works for me. why was this so hard?!!?
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try kicking out the cable
submitted by dwight on fri, 11/09/2007 - 02:40.
try kicking out the cable during time machine's active period. maybe you'll find out. given that up till mid-oct. it was in the beta and they were advertising the feature there is likely a defect that'll cause a data loss under some circumstances that they hadn't been able to figure out or fix completely by release.
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i think apple closed it, so
submitted by anonymous coward (not verified) on fri, 11/09/2007 - 00:44.
i think apple closed it, so you would be able to do it. but they wouldn't be bothered when something went wrong...
and it gives them a little more time, to iron out all bugs....
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have you tried doing
submitted by james (not verified) on fri, 11/09/2007 - 02:00.
have you tried doing restores yet?
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can you browse the tm
submitted by brandon h (not verified) on fri, 11/09/2007 - 02:13.
can you browse the tm backups in the actual interface? i was only able to backup using tm to a sparse image to my aebs, and it couldn't read the subsequent backup.
i haven't tried the patch yet, i just wanted to know before i installed it.
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yes, you can easily browse
submitted by jered (not verified) on fri, 11/09/2007 - 16:51.
yes, you can easily browse the sparsebundle with the tm interface. right-click (or control-click) tm in your dock, and then select "browse other time machine disks...." and select the mounted sparsebundle, which will be named "backup of <i>machinename</i>". (note that you must mount the sparsebundle first -- just double-click on it.
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it recognizes but won't
submitted by wcp (not verified) on fri, 11/09/2007 - 02:54.
it recognizes but won't allow selection of my server directory mounted as a volume. i've tried it on 3 different volumes (directories) where i have full privileges.
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working for me too, using an
submitted by tim d (not verified) on fri, 11/09/2007 - 09:20.
working for me too, using an iomega 300gb nas
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i'm just disappointed you
submitted by sideshowralphwiggum (not verified) on fri, 11/09/2007 - 18:33.
i'm just disappointed you didn't release this just a couple days sooner. november 5th, to be exact. after all, that would have been 52 years to the day since the original flux capacitor was conceived. *sigh*
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i thought i was a nerd
submitted by anonymous coward (not verified) on fri, 11/09/2007 - 21:00.
i thought i was a nerd
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i'm just disappointed you
submitted by sideshowralphwiggum (not verified) on fri, 11/09/2007 - 18:33.
i'm just disappointed you didn't release this just a couple days sooner. november 5th, to be exact. after all, that would have been 52 years to the day since the original flux capacitor was conceived. *sigh*
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now that's funny!!!!
submitted by wwwclown (not verified) on fri, 11/09/2007 - 19:16.
now that's funny!!!!
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oooooh, i wouldn't go near
submitted by anonymous coward (not verified) on sat, 11/10/2007 - 06:06.
oooooh, i wouldn't go near this 'fix' at all.
why? because time machine is doing some filesystem-level stuff to take snapshots, etc....stuff that afs doesn't *necessarily* have to implement.
so in using this 'fix', you're assuming that an airport extreme basestation implements every single feature of afs in vending an "airport disk".
more power to ya. but remember, time machine is supposed to be a reliable, rock-solid *fall back*.
so why would you play fast and loose with some 'quick fix'?
instead, just unplug that disk from your aeb and move it to a mac and share it via afs and leave that mac running all the time.
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is there any way to keep it
submitted by yeeeoww (not verified) on sat, 11/10/2007 - 08:48.
is there any way to keep it from creating a sparsebundle when backing up over airport? it seems like it slows down the backup process.
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didnt work for me. the disk
submitted by mkallevik (not verified) on sat, 11/10/2007 - 15:52.
didnt work for me. the disk showed up, but i am getting "cannot write to disk image" when trying to back up.
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make sure you have write
submitted by admin on sat, 11/10/2007 - 18:13.
make sure you have write permissions on that disk share.
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perfect.
i have a windows
submitted by anonymous coward (not verified) on mon, 11/12/2007 - 00:15.
perfect.
i have a windows server, mounted mac backup disk to it using macdrive run this nifty little sript on my mac book, gave write permissions to the user in this case the backup process and viola. now wherever i am and theres internet my time machine backs me up .
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ok,
i need someone to walk
submitted by ok i'm stupid (not verified) on mon, 11/12/2007 - 06:11.
ok,
i need someone to walk me through the install. i've got two ether net drives on my networlk and would like to bak uo rtight to them with myh wireless laptop. any way to deo this.
please email me and if it;s ok wnmwil me at curt@whatboxcreative.com and maybe we could set up a call. i'm kewl, just dangeroud enought to really screw up my mac.
thanks curt
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