![]() ![]() MacBookProIcey_aa00bb11cc22.sparsebundle) On your mac open disk utility, make a new disk image with the max size on disk possible and name it Computername_ethernetmacadress.sparsebundle (ex.The server will show up on your mac connect to the xserve afp server.Then service avahi-daemon and atalk restart.Change UserName to your username and /var/hda/files/timemachine to your timemachine folder, the first line will also publish your homefolder to your mac but was necessary in my setup to work. ![]() var/hda/files/timemachine allow:UserName cnidscheme:cdb options:usedots,upriv Because the exact conditions leading to data corruption are not well quantified, we do not recommend you backup like this.įor full time machine support in fedora, avahi(bonjour) and netatalk(afp) need to be installed There are rumors that data corruption can occur if the size of the backup exceeds 2TB or if a large number of files, on the order of a million, are backed up. Needless to say, we're not advocating you backup your data like this, since Apple does not support this functionality. It should be noted that mounting a directory from your HDA via NFS let's you use time machine without this hack. This will offer you the choice to backup to your HDA shares. ![]() The Time Machine hack is a one liner command to be typed in a terminal in Mac OS X:ĭefaults write TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 There is an unsupported way to enable using Mac OS X Time Machine to backup to your HDA. The method described below does not appear to work with Time Machine starting with Snow Leopard - it allows you to see the drives, but backups will not start successfully. WARNING - Hack ahead! For Time Machine smb users only. You can, however, manually copy files to an HDA shared folder.Īnother backup solution is a program called SuperDuper!, follow the link to see the steps and to find out about SuperDuper!.īackups with SystemRescueCD have been reported that they work, more info can be found by visiting the link.īackups with Time Machine Amahi Time Machine Application SMB (Samba) Mac OS X without Time Machine is not officially supported through automated HDA Backups at this time.
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