TimeMachine to Samba NAS

[tivoboy]

usb drive

No...Already tried that. I spent the entire 4th of July holiday weekend trying to build a workaround for this. There is none. The ONLY things you can use TM on are:

A local Hard Drive Formatted with A Mac File System
A Time Capsule
A AFP Share on a Lion or Snow Leopard system
A Linux Server running the newest versions of nettalk.

apparently a USB drive connected to an airport extreme will work as well. for those mac users with an airport extreme, you can just connect your NAS to that device for now

 

[kingtj]

For the record ....

Netatalk 2.20 release is now up on Sourceforge.
I just checked about 10 minutes ago and no sign of FreeNAS 8 doing anything with this new code yet, but hopefully it's happening behind the scenes at least.

I just spent a lot of money building a big server running FreeNAS, v8.0 about a month ago, so all of the Macs in the house could do centralized Time Machine backups onto it -- and well, got screwed big-time with that plan!

Great news http://www.netafp.com/open-letter-to-the-netatalk-community-501/ Scroll down to the "update" section.
Netatalk 2.2 will probably be on sourceforge soon.

 

[CallumCc]

Fixed! - http://techpump.co.uk/?p=105

 

[erpetao]

Fixed! - http://techpump.co.cc/?p=105

Anybody tried it?

 

[smitty97]

Anybody tried it?

Unfortunately that was a fix for Windows machines, and how to create a sparsebundle.

 

[CallumCc]

Unfortunately that was a fix for Windows machines, and how to create a sparsebundle.

This also should work for NAS drives.

 

[tommysqueak]

Unfortunately that was a fix for Windows machines, and how to create a sparsebundle.

I tried the second part (Prepare Your Mac!), as I'd already had it working before Lion and I think the 1st part was for a Windows machine. I'm backing up to Unbuntu via and SMB share. It worked for me after running the script and it's now happily backing up.

 

[CallumCc]

I tried the second part (Prepare Your Mac!), as I'd already had it working before Lion and I think the 1st part was for a Windows machine. I'm backing up to Unbuntu via and SMB share. It worked for me after running the script and it's now happily backing up.

Galas to hear it