Could you guys mention that you can't use the time machine interface to go back in time? I have tried this and while it will backup to the AEBS and allow restore using the Leopard install DVD, clicking the TM icon will only let you see your current time and no previous versions of your data (which is kind of the whole point in my book) over the network.
I'll wait until it is officially supported, including the full interface. Until then, a time machine partition works nicely to keep track of previous versions, along with .Mac backup (or super duper if you prefer) which is happy to backup incrementally to the AEBS (best of both worlds). Just be sure to use an external backup solution (periodic backups to USB HD or NAS), or you'll be sorry if you lappie explodes or something.
I'm not sure what you're doing wrong, but the Time Machine UI works fine when using unsupported network drives.
I've been running this method for about a week now without any hitches. In fact, when you backup to a non-supported drive, because of the way Time Machine relies of hard-linked directories, it will create a Mac OS sparse disk image (which supports this feature inside of it). Sure, with a sparse disk image, you'll always run the risk of if the image gets corrupt, there goes your data - but then again, there's always a risk that it'll snow at the equator too!
I've even used this method to RESTORE from a Time Machine disk on a NAS via the Leopard DVD.
All-in-all, sure, it may not be for the faint of heart, but in the week I've been running it, all my backups have completed, it has auto-mounted the network share if (at the time of the hourly backup) the share wasn't mounted (and even unmounted the share once complete).
yeah, it works great for me too. I have a 500 GB FAT formatted USB drive hooked up to my PC and shared on my network. I am able to back up to this volume and restore without hitch!
Great Hack and thanks to whoever posted it. This is what I needed!!!!
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Could you guys mention that you can't use the time machine interface to go back in time? I have tried this and while it will backup to the AEBS and allow restore using the Leopard install DVD, clicking the TM icon will only let you see your current time and no previous versions of your data (which is kind of the whole point in my book) over the network.
I'll wait until it is officially supported, including the full interface. Until then, a time machine partition works nicely to keep track of previous versions, along with .Mac backup (or super duper if you prefer) which is happy to backup incrementally to the AEBS (best of both worlds). Just be sure to use an external backup solution (periodic backups to USB HD or NAS), or you'll be sorry if you lappie explodes or something.
I'm not sure what you're doing wrong, but the Time Machine UI works fine when using unsupported network drives.
I've been running this method for about a week now without any hitches. In fact, when you backup to a non-supported drive, because of the way Time Machine relies of hard-linked directories, it will create a Mac OS sparse disk image (which supports this feature inside of it). Sure, with a sparse disk image, you'll always run the risk of if the image gets corrupt, there goes your data - but then again, there's always a risk that it'll snow at the equator too!
I've even used this method to RESTORE from a Time Machine disk on a NAS via the Leopard DVD.
All-in-all, sure, it may not be for the faint of heart, but in the week I've been running it, all my backups have completed, it has auto-mounted the network share if (at the time of the hourly backup) the share wasn't mounted (and even unmounted the share once complete).
Thumbs Up here, works fine.
yeah, it works great for me too. I have a 500 GB FAT formatted USB drive hooked up to my PC and shared on my network. I am able to back up to this volume and restore without hitch!
Great Hack and thanks to whoever posted it. This is what I needed!!!!
never mind, it works. I was thinking this wascthe same as pluging the drive in directly via USB first, but its not. Sorry.