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Comment on 'Network Time Machine backups to another Mac' by steve keegan

2010-04-18T14:31:42Z

brilliant, I had 200gb on my macbook pro that was taking days to download, but now I have got my first full sync, the rest happens as usual.. good work, I really don’t understand why they don’t let people know about this.. probably want people to buy the time capsule…

Comment on 'Network Time Machine backups to another Mac' by steve mon

2009-12-03T20:01:35Z

Well it seemed to work then, I took the disk back to the server Mac and my notebook erased the original backup and started all over again. Must have done something wrong. I see the file “sparce bundle.” I interrupted, moved the disk as suggested. The minute I moved the disk back to the server Mac TM could not find the disk and when I set up a new disk, could not find the previous back up. Help!

Comment on 'Network Time Machine backups to another Mac' by Brent

2009-03-09T03:15:22Z

Excellent instructions. Thanks a million…which due the financial mess we are in is now a thousand… ;-)

Comment on 'Network Time Machine backups to another Mac' by Brandon

2009-02-18T13:13:54Z

Yeah, I’d guess that it needs to be formated with HFS.

Comment on 'Network Time Machine backups to another Mac' by David

2009-02-18T04:34:03Z

I’m trying to just use a NAS share – not exactly following this recipe, just trying to use a net share. TM sees the (unsupported) drive but fails attempting to create the backup image. (

The backup disk image could not be created.

) I’m using a LaCie Ethernet Big Disk. Created the share with AFP support. HFS versus XFS file system issue?

Comment on 'Network Time Machine backups to another Mac' by Warren L. Lejeune

2009-01-24T03:57:57Z

Wow, it works… I’m very happy because I use a special config: iBook 900Mhz G3 Screenless, with 2 firewire HDD plugged into the laptop, with usb printer on it, plus a usb HDD drive… all of these shared wirelessly + share screen from everywhere…. And they are hidden in a wardrobe. And I can do my Time machine backup everytime…. Thanks again for this tip !

Comment on 'Network Time Machine backups to another Mac' by Brandon

2009-01-17T01:12:11Z

Yeah, that works too…if your laptop has an ethernet port. :)

Comment on 'Network Time Machine backups to another Mac' by Mark Van Holstyn

2009-01-17T01:04:12Z

I accomplished this in the past by doing the initial back while both machines were plugged in to my router via ethernet (one was already plugged in anyway, so I just plugged in my laptop one evening and let it run).