I have signed up at Box for 50GB of free storage and was wondering whether I could use this for a time machine backup?
Thanks in advance
James
Thanks in advance
James
I have signed up at Box for 50GB of free storage and was wondering whether I could use this for a time machine backup?
Thanks in advance
James
Nope... that won't work. Time Machine needs a HFS+ formatted disk as a destination and it needs to be over the AFS network protocol. box.net won't meet either of those requirements.
I have an HP "home server" that uses NTFS on the drives, and I'm pretty sure that it uses SMB. It gets around the HFS+ limitation by creating an image file. As for the protocol, I'm not sure whether it does something clever with AFP or whether Time Machine can actually use SMB.