Back (Time Machine) drive hosted on networked PC?

[Qwerty11]

Is it possible to have your backup HD that is doing the Time Machine backups be connected to a networked PC? If not, can Carbon Copy Cloner do this?

 

[Altemose]

Time Machine is not supported officially on anything but a locally connected drive, AirPort Extreme + USB hard drive, or Time Capsule. Some third party hardware "supports" it but it is liable to breaking at Apple's discretion. I do not think you should have CCC point to a networked PC.

 

[jimholcomb]

I've been playing around with backing up to a Windows 7 share and it works just fine. It is unsupported as mentioned above.

However, being able to restore from that backup is just as important. Restoring individual folders and files works the same as it does from an attached drive but restoring your entire system to a clean disk is not as straightforward though.

This is the article I used to setup my backups:
http://www.heystephenwood.com/2014/09/mac-os-x-time-machine-backups-to.html

And an article on how to restore:
http://www.mageuzi.com/blog/#!/entr...ine-backup-thatrsquos-stored-on-a-windows,467

As I said at the top I'm *playing* with this, just for the sake of science, and I plan to add a drive to the Mac.

Jim

 

[takeshi74]

Time Machine is not supported officially on anything but a locally connected drive, AirPort Extreme + USB hard drive, or Time Capsule.

Or
https://www.apple.com/osx/server/features/#time-machine