Comments on: How to create a network backup with Apple’s TimeMachine

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:10:21 +0000

I cannot seem to get this to work. Perhaps the fact that the drive is formatted as a fat32? I created the sparsebundle although my mac address did not seem to look like your format. It just says “Making backup disk available” and then eventually throws an error 45 which seems to be a sparsebundle could not be created error. Why is it trying to create one when I already did that an copied it over?

Thanks for any help, which is always appreciated.

Dave

By: TheMoose

TheMoose — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:32:38 +0000

Nice one!

…Works a treat and I now have twice the capacity of an Apple Time Capsule for a NAS backup rig half the price.

Changed the time interval too, because hourly backup was doing my dinger!

Honk Diddley

By: matej

matej — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:03:16 +0000

Hi Iceman,

If I understand you right, you have a little bit opposite problem.

When you make backup first time, you will see this message.
Although TimeMachine supports backuping for external drives, I think that TM don’t support it for shared drives.

Thanks,
Matej

By: Iceman

Iceman — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:45:57 +0000

Hi,
i read your article and it’s really interesting.

I didn’t understand a thing: is it possible to backup a network drive (a windows share) with TimeMachine?

OK, i understood i can backup TO a network drive… but is it possible to backup A network drive on a local TimeMachine harddrive? And How to?

Let me know, please! :D