Hey,
I just received my new toy today, a gorgeous 13" MBP. Since this is all new and exciting I was playing with it all day long and I stumbled across the method to make TM put a backup on a Windows share over the network:
disable volume checking:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
And bombs away. Unfortunately the backup chokes after a few minutes.
Googling some more, I found that there is a workaround: create a local backup by hand with some disk utils thing, copy over the network and append back to it once remounted over SAMBA.
Unfortunately there are a lot of reports that this does not work once old backups need to be pruned.
Anybody managed to get this whole thing working successfully?
Is one able to restore a new Mac from such a backup?
Thanks for your time
Timecapsule And SMB backup
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by clusty1, Sep 30, 2009.