Hi. I have a MacBook Pro that I would like to perform wireless back ups of on a network drive. I'm not sure how to go about this. Would I have to get a time capsule?
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MacBook backup to network drive? (Not Time Capsule)
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Sorry for the Hi-Jack.
I have a WD My Book Live that i use to backup my desktop and laptop Windows pc's. can I get a Mac to backup to it to, unsure because its ntfs file system on it.
Or can I split a partition off on the NAS drive and format it into a Mac file system
I have a WD My Book Live that i use to backup my desktop and laptop Windows pc's. can I get a Mac to backup to it to, unsure because its ntfs file system on it.
Or can I split a partition off on the NAS drive and format it into a Mac file system
So I set up the drive with Fat32 and I created and placed the sprasebundle to it. But I keep getting error 45.
Not necessarily - it needs a file system the can hold the metadata. My NAS is formatted with ext4 and Time Machine backs up to that fine.
After much failure I was able to mount and use an external exfat drive to use time machine. Now I need help creating an apple script to run it at log on. Any Advice would be great.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Can be done outside of script. Add the drive as one of your login items under system preferences and the OS will connect every time you log-in.
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I don't think metadata plays that much role in TM backups (if at all). But the filesystem must be capable of hard linking.