Unrelated to this article, but any idea why its taking Apple so long to update the OS included on all their machines at the Apple Online Store? it still shows 10.4 Tiger for all laptops and desktops! (whereas the iLife 08' update was done instantly.)
Since there are already a few discovered bugs and potential bugs coming up, there will sure be some buyers want to switch back to Tiger and wait for the updates. I think it's good to have two cats in hand.
I tried several times to get a MBP with Leopard to backup to a shared volume on an iMac also running leopard, but no joy. Backup would stall out hafway through and not complete.
Works fine for me. Got a Macbook with around 70GB backed up via TM through a Quad G5 to a FW800 external drive. Incrementals take less than a minute (although there really isn't that much to do, so far).
I would like to see support for backing up to a disk image. Since disk images can be formatted in HFS+ there shouldn't be any problems with doing it, and it could possibly allow for a network backup to any disk or server, as long as there is a disk image on it.
Yes, people have done it, you just have to use the terminal a bit.
Taken from Macrumors forums
It seemed like it was going to work, but it didn't. The Apple Forums are littered with people complaining about AEBS. Even regardless if I get AEBS and TM working together, AEBS has been flaky in its operation. F/W update 7.2.1 showed no joy. I am hoping Apple puts some effort into this fix.
I wanted to use AirDisk because hooking up my Mac to a local disk made backup go too fast and reliable.
In all fairness, some people like less clutter on their desk. Tonight, I am going to hook up a drive to my Airport Extreme and see how it goes. My AEBS is hooked up via ethernet as the router and my iMac is on the wired gigabit network. Hopefully, that works. If so, I will move my HDD downstairs in the basement and move one more thing and two cords off my desk. Now why you would do that wirelessly, is another question.
Yes, people have done it, you just have to use the terminal a bit.
Taken from Macrumors forums
When I try doing the touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported command in terminal inside of the external drive root directory, I get the error message "touch: .com.apple.timemachine.supported: Permission denied"
I used to use this as a time machine backup drive via firewire, but I want to switch to an airport version and now I'm getting that error message. Thoughts?
Update
I figured it out. I just had to change the owner of the file back to admin, remove it, and start over. Works great! Thanks!
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Unrelated to this article, but any idea why its taking Apple so long to update the OS included on all their machines at the Apple Online Store? it still shows 10.4 Tiger for all laptops and desktops! (whereas the iLife 08' update was done instantly.)
Since there are already a few discovered bugs and potential bugs coming up, there will sure be some buyers want to switch back to Tiger and wait for the updates. I think it's good to have two cats in hand.
I tried several times to get a MBP with Leopard to backup to a shared volume on an iMac also running leopard, but no joy. Backup would stall out hafway through and not complete.
Works fine for me. Got a Macbook with around 70GB backed up via TM through a Quad G5 to a FW800 external drive. Incrementals take less than a minute (although there really isn't that much to do, so far).
Yes, people have done it, you just have to use the terminal a bit.
Taken from Macrumors forums
It seemed like it was going to work, but it didn't. The Apple Forums are littered with people complaining about AEBS. Even regardless if I get AEBS and TM working together, AEBS has been flaky in its operation. F/W update 7.2.1 showed no joy. I am hoping Apple puts some effort into this fix.
This is all you need to do from terminal:
default write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
launch time machine, blam AEBS Disk should show up.
I wanted to use AirDisk because hooking up my Mac to a local disk made backup go too fast and reliable.
In all fairness, some people like less clutter on their desk. Tonight, I am going to hook up a drive to my Airport Extreme and see how it goes. My AEBS is hooked up via ethernet as the router and my iMac is on the wired gigabit network. Hopefully, that works. If so, I will move my HDD downstairs in the basement and move one more thing and two cords off my desk. Now why you would do that wirelessly, is another question.
Yes, people have done it, you just have to use the terminal a bit.
Taken from Macrumors forums
When I try doing the touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported command in terminal inside of the external drive root directory, I get the error message "touch: .com.apple.timemachine.supported: Permission denied"
I used to use this as a time machine backup drive via firewire, but I want to switch to an airport version and now I'm getting that error message. Thoughts?
Update
I figured it out. I just had to change the owner of the file back to admin, remove it, and start over. Works great! Thanks!