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Top level of indirection About Me Index Catch CATCH Forum Appearances Login Subscribe level of indirection RSS Twitter « Stackoverflow DevDays London | unraid 6 time machine Main | Code formatting in C++ Part Two » SaturdayOct102009 Using a crashplan networked drive for Time Machine backups (on aMac) Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 8:13PM You'll find similar information backblaze to this around the web, but I find it fiddly enough to piece together reliably, and I need it often enough, that I thought I'd blog about it. That way it at least gives me a single place to look. Maybe it will help others too. Much of the specifcs, especially the hdiutil command line and the ifconfig trick, I sourced from this thread in the ReadyNAS forums. Note that the advice is by no means specific to ReadyNAS drives (I have a Thecus NAS myself). Many thanks to btaroli in that thread for the insight. Time Machine Time Machine is Apple's easy-to-use backup system, baked into OS X (as of Leopard). Unfortunately it doesn't allow you to back-up to a networked drive out of the box. Enabling this ability is pretty easy. Early on there were some reliability issues - which were largely due to the fact that Time Machine created a disk image (more specifically, a sparse bundle) on the network drive, and this was prone to corruption if the network connection was disrupted during a backup. I don't know if all the issues here have been entirely resolved now, but it does seem more reliable. Apple's own Time Capsule, which has been specifically designed to work with Time Machine, uses this same method, so it is no longer an entirely unsupported technique. Enabling Time Machine for network drives So how do you enable backing up to network drives? Open a terminal window and paste the following in (then hit return, of course): defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 Mounted network drives will then show up in the list of desti
Please enter a title. You can not post a blank message. Please type your message and try again. GEAC85 Level 1 (0 points) Q: Cannot backup Time machine - error 45 Iomega Hi,I'm trying to back up my wife's Imac using Time Machine for the first time.For that I'm using as a backup drive an Iomega NAS 2TB drive.Already tried several times but always get Error 45, sparse disk cannot be created...The iMac network name is not long nor has special characters so this is not the cause of the problem.Any help would be apreciated,Thanks in advance,George iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8) Posted on Feb 8, 2012 12:39 PM I have this http://www.levelofindirection.com/journal/2009/10/10/using-a-networked-drive-for-time-machine-backups-on-a-mac.html?currentPage=9 question too by Pondini,Solvedanswer Pondini Level 8 (38,747 points) A: Backing-up to NAS drives involves both the NAS software and Time Machine, and each NAS interacts with TM differently.Be sure you're following Iomega's instructions very carefully, and that the NAS is compatible with Snow Leopard (some aren't).A clue may be lurking in your logs. Use the widget in #A1 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting to display the backup messages from your logs. Locate https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3721409?start=0&tstart=0 the backup in question, then copy and post all the messages here. Posted on Feb 9, 2012 5:29 PM See the answer in context Close Q: Cannot backup Time machine - error 45 Iomega All replies Helpful answers by Pondini,Solvedanswer Pondini Feb 9, 2012 5:29 PM in response to GEAC85 Level 8 (38,747 points) Feb 9, 2012 5:29 PM in response to GEAC85 Backing-up to NAS drives involves both the NAS software and Time Machine, and each NAS interacts with TM differently.Be sure you're following Iomega's instructions very carefully, and that the NAS is compatible with Snow Leopard (some aren't).A clue may be lurking in your logs. Use the widget in #A1 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting to display the backup messages from your logs. Locate the backup in question, then copy and post all the messages here. Helpful (0) Reply options Link to this post This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums. Apple disclaims any a
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