Hello All,
I don't know if this is the right board to post this, or if the Mac OS X Server, XServe and Networking board would be better.
When Lion came out, I upgraded my Mac Mini (which I've used as a server even though it only had Snow Leopard client installed). I installed the "Server" add on.
I have multiple external hard drives connected to the mini. I'm using two different drives for time machine backups from two different Macs. With just the standard file sharing enabled, I have no problems with Time Machine backing up to those drives with Snow Leopard clients.
However, when I upgraded my main Mac Pro to Lion, Time Machine would no longer back up to the network drive. I keep getting the infamous "The Network Backup Disk Does Not Support The Required AFP Features" message. I have since reverted to Snow Leopard via a disk image that I made before upgrading to Lion.
I notice that in the Server.app, there is a dedicated Time Machine Service. I have tested this with a Lion client test set up. This works, but it doesn't allow me to select more than one volume that I can use as a Time Machine target. Does anyone know what the "Time Machine" service actually does that is different from standard AFP file sharing? Is there a way to hack the Time Machine service to allow more than one time machine backup volume? Finally, assuming that I can get Time Machine in Lion to connect at all, can I safely migrate my existing Time Machine backup archives to Lion?
I appreciate any help that anyone can offer.
Regards,
Geoffrey
I don't know if this is the right board to post this, or if the Mac OS X Server, XServe and Networking board would be better.
When Lion came out, I upgraded my Mac Mini (which I've used as a server even though it only had Snow Leopard client installed). I installed the "Server" add on.
I have multiple external hard drives connected to the mini. I'm using two different drives for time machine backups from two different Macs. With just the standard file sharing enabled, I have no problems with Time Machine backing up to those drives with Snow Leopard clients.
However, when I upgraded my main Mac Pro to Lion, Time Machine would no longer back up to the network drive. I keep getting the infamous "The Network Backup Disk Does Not Support The Required AFP Features" message. I have since reverted to Snow Leopard via a disk image that I made before upgrading to Lion.
I notice that in the Server.app, there is a dedicated Time Machine Service. I have tested this with a Lion client test set up. This works, but it doesn't allow me to select more than one volume that I can use as a Time Machine target. Does anyone know what the "Time Machine" service actually does that is different from standard AFP file sharing? Is there a way to hack the Time Machine service to allow more than one time machine backup volume? Finally, assuming that I can get Time Machine in Lion to connect at all, can I safely migrate my existing Time Machine backup archives to Lion?
I appreciate any help that anyone can offer.
Regards,
Geoffrey
