How to use Mac OS X TimeMachine with Samba or NFS
1. Set your computer name:
System Preferences - Sharing - Computer name
2. Enable network drives for TimeMachine:
in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
3. Create 200Gbyte sparsebundle:
in Terminal:
hdiutil create -size 200g -fs HFS+J -volname "My Backup" /tmp/`scutil --get ComputerName`_`ifconfig en0 | grep ether | awk {'print $2'} | tr -d ":"`.sparsebundle
4. Mount your share:
Finder - Go - Connect: smb://USERNAME@SAMBA_MACHINE/SAMBA_SHARE
5. Copy sparsebundle to samba share (1-2 min):
in Terminal:
cp -Rp /tmp/`scutil --get ComputerName`_`ifconfig en0 | grep ether | awk {'print $2'} | tr -d ":"`.sparsebundle /Volumes/SAMBA_SHARE
6. Set up TimeMachine Disk:
System Preferences - Time Machine - Change Disk: select your share
The first backup will take a long time!
August 31st, 2010 - 22:55
You can also use TM with afp share. Configure your back up on the same way as you do it with Samba but mount an afp device, that’s all.