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.
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can time machine back up a mounted network drive?
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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?
italiano40
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http://lifehacker.com/341704/time-machine-over-the-network-with-itimemachine
yes this will tell you how to do it.
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
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best thing I found was synctwofolders (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/30727)
this will allow me to keep a synced copy locally.
this will allow me to keep a synced copy locally.
italiano40
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that would be ur best becuase time machine can't do it i just looked at every option and it wont work
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.
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.