I'm about to get a new Mac Pro running Leopard at work. This machine will be hooked up to our network (PC network). Can I have Time Machine back up the Mac Pro to a folder on the server, and if so, are there any issues I need to consider? Thanks.
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Time Machine question
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Time machine really needs an HFS+ formatted volume with multilink support to work, as with the latest version in Leopard. Network drives with Windows are not HFS+, so probably wouldn't work. However, I have found a couple of links related to having TM backup to a network drive. They are:
http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/10/12595/
http://smangal.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/time-machine-with-network-drive/
http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/10/12595/
http://smangal.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/time-machine-with-network-drive/
Thanks for the links. What do you think the odds are that Apple will add support for networked drives in the (near) future?