question: Share timemachine disk over network.

[powermi]

Hi, I'm moving most of my workflow back to powerpc and I'm dealing with sharing a time-machine disk over the network with other Macs. Does anyobe have an idea of the trick to do it? apparently on newer OSx versions there is a option on the Shared menu.

thanks.

 

[eyoungren]

Hi, I'm moving most of my workflow back to powerpc and I'm dealing with sharing a time-machine disk over the network with other Macs. Does anyobe have an idea of the trick to do it? apparently on newer OSx versions there is a option on the Shared menu.

thanks.

Trick to do it?

Meaning making your PowerPC Macs see the TM drive?

If so, there is a terminal command that is required for TM to see network drives as valid disks. I had a thread on this, but I can't seem to find it right now. At the moment I don't have any time to look any more.

Quickly though, you may want to rethink this strategy. Before Lion, TM backups over a network are really buggy - especially with Leopard. Network TM backups use sparse disk images and those can go south very quickly.

I'd give some serious thought to using either CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) or SuperDuper. You can schedule backups with those and it gets handled in the background. What's more, those drive images can be moved around, unlike TM backups.

 

[Hrududu]

What is hosting your Time Machine drive? I have an Xserve playing Time Machine host to my home machines. The volume is on an Xserve RAID. From Leopard to Catalina, I haven't had any problems. The Leopard machines found the backup volume just as easily as the newer Macs.

 

[powermi]

What is hosting your Time Machine drive? I have an Xserve playing Time Machine host to my home machines. The volume is on an Xserve RAID. From Leopard to Catalina, I haven't had any problems. The Leopard machines found the backup volume just as easily as the newer Macs.

It's a dual 500mhz running leopard. Can't make the mac to show the time machine volume available over the Network.