davorin Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 Upgraded to 9A559 and see that my NFS volumes aren't listed anymore as a backup drive for time machine. Anybody else seeing this? Under 9A527 I could backup to my NFS drive but it wouldn't recognise the image stored on the next boot (o; cheers davorin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gongloo Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 Upgraded to 9A559 and see that my NFS volumes aren't listed anymore as a backup drive for time machine. Anybody else seeing this? Yup, I'm getting the same behavior on 9A559 here. I hadn't played with time machine until this release, though. I have tried to use Time Machine with an NFS mount as well as an SMB mount to no avail. Tried to get AFP working with my linux server but wasn't having any luck there with netatalk, so I can't report on whether or not this build of Leopard will allow using AFP drives with Time Machine. Of note, the Apple web site does mention Time Machine compatibility with AirPort-based disk mounts, which use AFP as far as I know. I was able to confirm that Time machine does recognize drives -- it's perfectly happy using one of my other local partitions. Perhaps there's a (hidden) preference for allowing network mounts via NFS or SMB to be used with Time Machine? Edit (2007.09.26 11PM EST) -- I was able to get things working via SMB by creating a hidden file within the SMB mount. touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported I still couldn't get it running over NFS, but I expect that to be a simple permissions issue with which I have no patience, especially given that it works with the exact same mount point over SMB. Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukp Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Edit (2007.09.26 11PM EST) -- I was able to get things working via SMB by creating a hidden file within the SMB mount. touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported I still couldn't get it running over NFS, but I expect that to be a simple permissions issue with which I have no patience, especially given that it works with the exact same mount point over SMB. Hope this helps. Good find with the touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported trick. I am pretty sure smb/afp mounts used to work "out of the box" in earlier versions of leopard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davorin Posted September 29, 2007 Author Share Posted September 29, 2007 I can choose the NS drive as backup destination...but after choosing it switches off again time machine... With AFP volumes this file has no effect...at least not with atalk AFP shares on Linux. cheers davorin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gummiente Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 I seem not to be able to use time machine on my 4th gen ipod 80GB ... any hints here? the drive simply does not show up in the list of drives when I enable time machine... any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukp Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 Did you do the touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported as explained above? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gummiente Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 yes I did. at the drive's mounted root at /Volumes/ipod/.com.apple.timemachine.supported tried as a restored ipod, tried by creating just 1 partition spanning the whole drive and formatted that as hfs+ journaled ... no dice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gusnyc Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 Hello Ukp, Could you please explain step by step how to make that trick. I am not very familiar with external disks connected to the Airport Extreme. In fact, I just got the disk, I connected to the Airport Extreme and I can see the volumes (as Sharepoints). But I don't know what AFP or SMB is. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukp Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 Open terminal.app and cd /Volumes do : ls You should see the name of the shared drive. cd <sharedname> then do : touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported Thats it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gusnyc Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Thanks UKP for your answer. I made it work. The only problem I am having is that when I click on time machine (after the backups has been done) I get a message saying that I haven't configured an external hard drive. I open TM preferences and my hard disk is listed. I don't understand how it works then. Gus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socci4 Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 Try to mount the sparse image file you find in the root of your NFS drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gusnyc Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 So, it doesn't mount automatically when I click on the Time Machine icon? Shouldn't be that way? Am I supposed to do that every time I want to use time machine? It sounds not intuitive at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socci4 Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 If the HD is dedicated to Time Machine, it recognize it automatically in the settings, and mount it automatically... If you already have any other type of data in the HD, Time Machine doesn't recognize it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brbo Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 With AFP volumes this file has no effect...at least not with atalk AFP shares on Linux.cheers davorin i can select afp share (linux/atalk) as time machine backup drive. it's important to first mount the afp in leopard and then touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported in your /Volumes/AFP_Share. doing that directly in linux filesystem won't create correct file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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