Sat 23 Aug 2008
Enable Mac Time Machine on NAS
Posted by Bashar under Technology
So I just finally got my self a NetGear ReadyNAS device and was thinking of trying the Time Machine that everybody have been talking about for long time. Unfortunately, for either technical or business reasons, Apple has made it that Time Machine by default does not use NAS drives. Why exactly? I don’t know. I just know that Googling for a solution, I found lots of similar requests, and lots of complicated long procedures, some suggesting you must have 2 MacBooks to get it to work. Others were as simple as one command line.
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
Now personally, I am still facing other problems that might be related with access to the drive, but at least now I can select the drive as the primary location for backup. I will update if I find anything else also related.
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August 24th, 2008 at 1:03 am
im not sure how the ReadyNAS will be with timemachine. i heard it works well with drobo .
August 24th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Rayboy: Drobo seems like a regular hard drive not network hard drive, which is where the difference happens.
It’s still giving me errors when it tries to access it. Strange thing is, Time Machine doesn’t allow test connection, you must wait until next backup scheduled time to know!
August 24th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Drobo has a network Share module.. needs to be attached though
August 25th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Rayboy: Yeah but can I attach it to the router directly?