Comments on: Use Time Machine to backup to a networked Windows or Linux drive

By: Manasy

Manasy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:07:14 +0000

Is that more secure?

By: Facemash

Facemash — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:49:14 +0000

Hmm your better to just use an external hard drive. As Time Machine isn’t supported when using it over a wireless network plus it will be mega slow.
Personally every week I just plug in my external hard drive and it does its thing.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:35:34 +0000

I helped a Friend from me who bought a NAS wich is formatted as EXT3. Some Tipps:
Since Snowleopard there is a problem with the Rights, best way is to make the Login-Name and Password from the NAS-Drive and the Mac User the same because Time Machine makes problems. Also connect with the IP-Adress because if you “just” use .lokal there seems be also a problem. Also dont make the sparsebundle with terminal instead use the Disk-Utility with GUI and copy the .sparsebundle to the NAS from your Mac. Now it shuldt work.