{"id":1242,"date":"2011-10-13T22:03:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T20:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zerga.dyndns.org\/wordpress\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2014-06-15T16:02:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T14:02:37","slug":"howto-get-macosx-lion-time-machine-to-backup-on-a-samba-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/13\/howto-get-macosx-lion-time-machine-to-backup-on-a-samba-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Howto Mac OS X Time Machine Backup to a Network Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I do not own a Time Capsule, I do not plan to get one, nor do i want to connect a usb disk every time i feel like making a backup of my stuff. What i do have however is a wireless network and a Windows 7 PC. Why not use the available disk space in my PC for the backups of my Macbook Pro? I found out how to Time Machine Backup to a Network Drive…<\/p>\n

In Snow Leopard it was still possible with a few tweaks and manual image file creation to get the OS to actually backup over the Network onto a Windows NTFS disk. Hoozah! In Lion (MacOSX 10.7.2) there is even another step required to get the backup process running. Using just step 1 it will fail with the message ‘The network backup disk does not support the required AFP features’.<\/p>\n

1. So besides the sam<\/a>e steps as in Snow Leopard to prepare the Backup Image File (my previous post)<\/a> you will also need to…<\/p>\n

2. Download and run the script from this file to modify backupd in such a way that it accepts remote disk on the network share: backupd_anyafp_r2<\/a> – just unpack and run .\/install.sh from the terminal.<\/p>\n

Thanks to msft.guy<\/a> for the script!<\/p>\n

PS: I still get the feeling that the backup of a FileVault encrypted home directory even on Lion still doesn’t work while being logged in. Meh.<\/del><\/p>\n

Correction: I had to switch to FileVault2. Now the whole disk is encrypted and my guess is Time Machine can handle that\u2026<\/p>\n

What if I still can’t find my share in TimeMachine?
\n<\/strong>(added 24. Jan. 2013)
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Here is a checklist what I would try then:<\/p>\n

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  1. close the preferences or even reboot after running the script above.<\/li>\n
  2. Find out your Computer Name:<\/strong>\n
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    1. Go to Apple menu > System Preferences<\/em> and click Sharing<\/em>.<\/li>\n
    2. Note the computer name appearing at the top of the window.
      \n– For example “ZergasMacbook”.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    3. Find your MAC address:<\/strong>\n
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      1. In Apple menu, select System Preferences...<\/code><\/li>\n
      2. From the View<\/code><\/strong> menu in System Preferences, select Network<\/code><\/strong>.<\/li>\n
      3. In the left column of the Network<\/code> preference window that opens, click the name of your connection ( Ethernet <\/code><\/strong>or<\/code> Built-in Ethernet<\/code><\/strong>).<\/li>\n
      4. Click the Advanced...<\/code><\/strong> button, and in the dropdown, click the Hardware<\/code><\/strong> or Ethernet<\/code><\/strong> tab.<\/li>\n
      5. The address is the string of letters and numbers next to “MAC Address:” or “Ethernet ID:”.
        \n– For example “00:15:20:aa:fe:a1”.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
      6. Create your sparsebundle:<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>\n
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        1. Follow the steps described in my guide: Create a sparsebundle on your Mac manually with the name “ComputerName_MACaddressWithoutColons.sparsebundle” and move it into the shared folder on the windows machine.
          \n– In the case of the examples above it would be “ZergasMacbook_001520aafea1.sparsebundle”.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
        2. Connect to the share:<\/strong>\n
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          1. On your Mac, in Finder go to the menu Go<\/strong> -> Connect to Server…<\/strong><\/li>\n
          2. Choose the share with the sparsebundle in it on your Windows computer. The share will now be mounted under Volumes with the name of the<\/strong> share folder<\/strong> you gave in windows.
            \n– For example let’s call the directory “MacBackup” on the computer “WindowsPC” then you a folder on your Mac called “\/Volumes\/MacBackup”.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
          3. Mount the sparsebundle:<\/strong>\n
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            1. Open a terminal and mount the sparsebundle as a drive under \/Volumes on your mac by typing: hdiutil attach -verbose \/Volumes\/MacBackup\/ZergasMacbook_001520aafea1.sparsebundle<\/i>
              \nYou can also just double-click on it to mount (thanks, mike!).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
            2. Connect the sparsebundle:<\/strong>\n
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              1. Now add the sparsebundle as the Time Machine destination with the terminal by typing: sudo tmutil setdestination \/Volumes\/mounted_sparse_bundle<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
              2. Then try starting the preferences and go to TimeMachine looking for the sparsebundle again.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                BTW: In the terminal you can hit TAB and OSX will complete the name of a file or folder you were about to write. Like this you dont have to type all the sparsebundle file name.<\/p>\n

                Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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