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Time Machine Question: For those with developer installations

anthonyjr

anthonyjr

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Sep 27, 2007
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Is it possible to use a secondary drive in my Mac Pro as the Time Machine back-up drive? Everything I read seems to lead to an external drive, but internal would be much more applicable in my situation.
 
It doesn't even have to be a separate drive at all. You can configure time machine to use the main drive as the storage location. This gives you the point-in-time recovery options but (obviously) without the protection against physical hard drive failure.
 
Go to the terminal...
Connect to your NAS.
create a file named ".com.apple.timemachine.supported" on your NAS.

The simplest way is to use "touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported".

Then, you can go to your TimeMachine menu and use it as your backup drive.
 
projectle said:
Go to the terminal...
Connect to your NAS.
create a file named ".com.apple.timemachine.supported" on your NAS.

The simplest way is to use "touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported".

Then, you can go to your TimeMachine menu and use it as your backup drive.
Click to expand...

Now that is an awesome tip... :cool: my ReadyNAS has yet another great use!!!
Thanks man! :)
 
"Go to the terminal...
Connect to your NAS.
create a file named ".com.apple.timemachine.supported" on your NAS.

The simplest way is to use "touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported".

Then, you can go to your TimeMachine menu and use it as your backup drive."

I am totally unfamiliar with the terminal. Is there another way of creating this file? Do you create a Share folder with that name on the NAS (Network Attached Store) or do you create a file within a share with that file name?

Thanks

Rich
 
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