can time machine back up a mounted network drive?

[davidwarren]

Now, I am not asking about using a network drive as a time machine back up drive, but rather, can time machine back up a network drive that is always mounted? I can't seem to get it to recognize it.

 

[davidwarren]

basically what I am dealing with is a smb shared drive on a windows box, but I want it to mount locally on my imac and have time machine back it up as if it were local. Is that possible?

 

[TH-Gunner]

Don't think so. Pretty sure it only backs up the internal drive.

 

[italiano40]

http://lifehacker.com/341704/time-machine-over-the-network-with-itimemachine

yes this will tell you how to do it.

 

[davidwarren]

http://lifehacker.com/341704/time-machine-over-the-network-with-itimemachine

yes this will tell you how to do it.

yeah, unless I read that wrong, that is a way to have TM use a network drive as the backup location, I am looking for a way to have TM locally backup a network drive.

 

[italiano40]

sorry misread
but i think you can't do that

 

[davidwarren]

best thing I found was synctwofolders (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/30727)

this will allow me to keep a synced copy locally.

 

[italiano40]

that would be ur best becuase time machine can't do it i just looked at every option and it wont work

 

[CaiOM]

If it's possible should be fantastic!

Have to be a command in terminal to make the system see network drive as a disk.

One click you can backup server A to server B with Time Machine.