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Can I tell you how much i LOVE Time Machine?

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This freaking thing just totally saved my ass. Accidentally deleted a file i needed weeks ago, but didn't realize it until today. Loaded up time machine and within 8 seconds, there it was, restored, back where it belongs.

Rock on!! Wooooo!!!

Sure various backup tools have been around for years, but NOTHING makes it as easy and painless to both backup and restore as time machine.
 
Yup! My wife plays with Time Machine daily, she loves watching the background drop onto the desktop...lol.
 
When we replaced my wife's iBook with a new MacBook, all I had to do to build the system was plug in the time machine disk. The installation used that as a source and moved all her stuff over for me. I had no idea it would do that, it saved me tons of effort!
 
Originally posted by: Batti
When we replaced my wife's iBook with a new MacBook, all I had to do to build the system was plug in the time machine disk. The installation used that as a source and moved all her stuff over for me. I had no idea it would do that, it saved me tons of effort!
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Thanks so much for the heads up. Was not aware TM would do that. Very nice.


 
Originally posted by: Batti
When we replaced my wife's iBook with a new MacBook, all I had to do to build the system was plug in the time machine disk. The installation used that as a source and moved all her stuff over for me. I had no idea it would do that, it saved me tons of effort!
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Did you let it replace already installed programs?

When I did that it seemed like the whole system got REALLY laggy - maybe as a byproduct of copying everything over, I dono.
 
I let it do the whole thing. I was impressed, as going from an iBook to MacBook means PPC to Intel change. The only thing that did not work was NeoOffice, but that was specifically compiled for PPC.

I had no idea this was an option until I booted up the new MacBook and it offered time machine as a way to migrate between systems. Very cool.
 
Originally posted by: Batti
Goose, what do you need to do to back up to a NAS?
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I have an old p4 box with about 1TB of storage, a gigabit NIC, and freenas (freenas.org) running off of a usb key.

I then create mount points and thereafter, shares using AFP (samba is too slow for BSD/OS x)

With freenas and afp shares, there is no need to fiddle with the OS to back up to SMB shares, no need to create sparse bundles and all that crap. Just point time machine to the share and you're golden.


if you ever need help during the setup feel free to hit me up via email / IM
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
I then create mount points and thereafter, shares using AFP (samba is too slow for BSD/OS x)
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? SMB runs at network speeds; is the Samba implementation in the NAS that bad?

With freenas and afp shares, there is no need to fiddle with the OS to back up to SMB shares, no need to create sparse bundles and all that crap. Just point time machine to the share and you're golden.
if you ever need help during the setup feel free to hit me up via email / IM
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Thanks; I'll get AFP running on the 2003 server and see how that works out.
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: Batti
Goose, what do you need to do to back up to a NAS?
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I have an old p4 box with about 1TB of storage, a gigabit NIC, and freenas (freenas.org) running off of a usb key.

I then create mount points and thereafter, shares using AFP (samba is too slow for BSD/OS x)

With freenas and afp shares, there is no need to fiddle with the OS to back up to SMB shares, no need to create sparse bundles and all that crap. Just point time machine to the share and you're golden.


if you ever need help during the setup feel free to hit me up via email / IM
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Hah nice, when did AFP shares start showing up in Time Machine? I'm running 10.5.3 and I can see my FreeNAS AFP share listed now as a backup drive option in TM. Slick!
 
Originally posted by: Kaido
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: Batti
Goose, what do you need to do to back up to a NAS?
Click to expand...

I have an old p4 box with about 1TB of storage, a gigabit NIC, and freenas (freenas.org) running off of a usb key.

I then create mount points and thereafter, shares using AFP (samba is too slow for BSD/OS x)

With freenas and afp shares, there is no need to fiddle with the OS to back up to SMB shares, no need to create sparse bundles and all that crap. Just point time machine to the share and you're golden.


if you ever need help during the setup feel free to hit me up via email / IM
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Hah nice, when did AFP shares start showing up in Time Machine? I'm running 10.5.3 and I can see my FreeNAS AFP share listed now as a backup drive option in TM. Slick!
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AFP is the protocol that Time Machine supports by default.
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: Kaido
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: Batti
Goose, what do you need to do to back up to a NAS?
Click to expand...

I have an old p4 box with about 1TB of storage, a gigabit NIC, and freenas (freenas.org) running off of a usb key.

I then create mount points and thereafter, shares using AFP (samba is too slow for BSD/OS x)

With freenas and afp shares, there is no need to fiddle with the OS to back up to SMB shares, no need to create sparse bundles and all that crap. Just point time machine to the share and you're golden.


if you ever need help during the setup feel free to hit me up via email / IM
Click to expand...

Hah nice, when did AFP shares start showing up in Time Machine? I'm running 10.5.3 and I can see my FreeNAS AFP share listed now as a backup drive option in TM. Slick!
Click to expand...

AFP is the protocol that Time Machine supports by default.
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That's weird...I've been running the AFP server on my NAS since Day 1 and it never showed up in my Time Machine preferences before...
 
Goose,

I'm having some trouble trying to do this. I have FreeNAS set up (awesome software!), and have an AFP share visible and writable to my Mac. Time Machine selects it OK, starts the backup, then dies with "The backup disk image could not be created". Did you format the disks on FreeNAS with UFS? Also, are you using the guest user to mount the share?

Thanks for any help - I'm googling away, but since it works cleanly for you I'm baffled.


 
Originally posted by: Batti
Goose,

I'm having some trouble trying to do this. I have FreeNAS set up (awesome software!), and have an AFP share visible and writable to my Mac. Time Machine selects it OK, starts the backup, then dies with "The backup disk image could not be created". Did you format the disks on FreeNAS with UFS? Also, are you using the guest user to mount the share?

Thanks for any help - I'm googling away, but since it works cleanly for you I'm baffled.
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I had the same issue when I tried to use my FreeNAS. To get it to work, I had to start a backup image on a local drive, then move that backup to the FreeNAS. Its something to do with creating the image on the network drive, it tries to mount it before its ready (or something along those lines)

 
OK, I've seen that process, but Goose seemed to indicate he didn't need to do that. I'll try it later. Thanks!
 
Originally posted by: Batti
OK, I've seen that process, but Goose seemed to indicate he didn't need to do that. I'll try it later. Thanks!
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It's hit or miss. I believe it was error free before the latest OS update (not the one this weekend). Now you have to resort to creating a sparse bundle on your own and transferring it to the backup target.

Simply,

In Applications>utilities>Disk utility, create a new image.

In the following order:
-select a sparse bundle
-no partition map
-File system is mac journaled
-size is (whatever you think you will need)
-name is*

*there are two names. one is the file name, and the other is the image name.

Label the top one, the file name, as follows: {computer name}{mac address}

ex: file name mac0e4d2e4a2b , image name John's Backup

Create it and you're all set.

Then one it's done drag it to the target volume and start TM.
I never got the encryption to work, but I guess if you're paranoid enough you can encrypt the whole target volume using freenas' built in AES encryption😀
 
Ah, Goosey. Bragging about your 1337 TM setup again? 🙂 I had enough of this over AIM! :laugh:

Really, though...it is pretty neat. Goose, can I set this up on a networked RAID5 array on Server 2003 somehow? Create a partition of some sort?

Later,
~Travis
 
Originally posted by: jamesbond007
Ah, Goosey. Bragging about your 1337 TM setup again? 🙂 I had enough of this over AIM! :laugh:

Really, though...it is pretty neat. Goose, can I set this up on a networked RAID5 array on Server 2003 somehow? Create a partition of some sort?

Later,
~Travis
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You can run it in a VM...
 
I love time machine with time capsule. My wife's blackbook (less than a year old) had a complete hard drive failure this weekend. Took it to the apple store and they put a new hd in for her. Took the computer home, plugged it into the time capsule and after a few hours, was like nothing ever happened. I'm so glad we got one, because she never backs up anything. She would have been really upset if she had lost all her data.
 
Originally posted by: jamesbond007
Ah, Goosey. Bragging about your 1337 TM setup again? 🙂 I had enough of this over AIM! :laugh:

Really, though...it is pretty neat. Goose, can I set this up on a networked RAID5 array on Server 2003 somehow? Create a partition of some sort?

Later,
~Travis
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On 2003 install Macintosh services in the network adapter settings which will allow you to create an AFP share.

How you create your raid (hardware, software) is irrelevant as long as the mac sees an AFP share so use any setup you want and you should be golden😀


And I was bragging about how cheap it was, not l337😀
 
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