On 2015-05-16 09:39, Ward... James Ward wrote: > Can anyone help me? > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Ward... James Ward" <james.e.w...@gmail.com> > Date: May 15, 2015 6:03 AM > Subject: Filesystem for OSX/BackupPC external drive > To: <james.k...@mac.com> > Cc: > > James, > > First of all, thanks so much for the lovely drop in BackupPC! That's > even easier than Linux package install! > > BackupPC came up running and ready to go after I installed it from > MacPorts. My only problem is, I want to use a 1T external drive for > the pool. While BackupPC finds the HFS+ internal drive fine, when I > format the external drive to HFS+, everything is owned: > -unknown:-unknown and BackupPC fails it's startup check for a useful > filesystem and aborts. > > How can I format that external drive so that BackupPC can use it? > > Thanks in advance, > > James
Sure, but before starting with the immediate issue, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that this is probably a BAD IDEA. I'd expect performance to be fairly dismal, and all kinds of terrible things can happen when the drive is unplugged. For now, I'll assume you have a use case which consists of a small amount of data you don't care about. OSX assumes a new external volume is portable, and since it can't make sense of account and file ownership across computers, it simply disabled this feature. You can enable ownership in the Info window for the volume. Not that it should be in one of the Mac OS Extended formats, and you'll want to uncheck the "Ignore ownership and permissions" option at the bottom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
