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    Timecapsule And SMB backup

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by clusty1, Sep 30, 2009.

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    clusty1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    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
     
    clusty1, Sep 30, 2009
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