Backups to a disk attached to a Time Machine are…unreliable and spotty at best. I have a mini running as a file server and used to do Time Machine backups from our laptops to a FW800 drive attached to it. To get the backups not attached to the server; I moved the drive to my Gigabit Airport Extreme and found that Time Machine backups both via wireless and via ethernet from the mini fail about half of the time. Carbon Copy Cloner jobs to copy folders similarly fail with an error about the Airport Shared drive dismounting.
Extensive discussions with Mike Bombich from CCC indicated that the sharing circuitry in the Airport just isn't up to snuff and can't handle the t throughput, I ended up moving the drive back off of the Airport and returning it to the Mini. In any event; if you do this you'll have to start over with the backups I think. Normal Time Machine backups to a shared network disk get saved to a .dmg file. For an Airport Shared disk or a disk shared from a computer running Server (I added this to the mini when I moved the drive back to it); the backup gets stored as a Finder readable Time Machine backup just like it would on a locally attached drive. I thought this would be a brilliant solution to my problem but it just didn't work. On Feb 18, 2013, at 4:37 PM, David Herren <[email protected]> wrote: > So I'm wondering if I were to move that particular disk to the Airport > Extreme would Time Machine see it and continue with backups for her laptop? > Will she have to manually mount the drive each time (which would be hardly > any better than the current situation) or is there some magic once I use Time > machine to point to the airdisc? > ----------------------------------------------- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. neil _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
