Multi-Macintosh Time Machine Backups

[fracai]

I've seen similar behavior where resizing and pruning works just fine.

 

[panz]

You can also see normal shares that you have already mounted, directly pickable in the TM browser box if you enter the following line in the Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

which does exactly what it looks like it does.

I know I'm replying to an old thread, but using

TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes

could result in data loss and is deprecated. See:

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-howto/31609-how-to-make-a-windows-time-machine-server-part-1

 

[nello]

I know I'm replying to an old thread, but using

TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes

could result in data loss and is deprecated. See:

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-howto/31609-how-to-make-a-windows-time-machine-server-part-1

Thanks for your input.

I found that backing up Time Machine (TM) to FreeNAS wasn't very reliable, even if I used just the single, TM sharepoint.

I'm using CrashPlan running on an iMac and with FreeNAS mounted to it as a regular Apple File Protocol (AFP) sharepoint. It is rock solid.

 

[fracai]

I haven't experienced any more problems using the defaults write mod and FreeNAS than I have backing up to another Mac.