On Feb 18, 2013, at 3:05 PM, David Herren <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Feb 18, 2013, at 4:42 PM, objectwerks inc <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hey Chad, thanks for the quick come back! > >> I suspect it will work but you will have to "start over" with the backups >> because the way that TM uses a remote disk is different than a local disk. >> You should also have to go into TM on the laptop and tell it to use the >> remote disk. > > That's unfortunate given the slow performance of air backups, but if I can > achieve a situation where my daughter's school papers get backed up with > minimal, and ideally, zero, intervention on her part, it will be worth it. It's possible to seed the target hard drive by manually creating a sparse bundle disk image, mounting it, setting that as the backup disk. After the first large backup is finished, you can then put the drive on the network. The disk image needs a specific file name, must be in root directory of the drive. There are recipes to do this floating about. > I didn't realize that file server backups were an option yet. It didn't work > when I first attempted it back in 2008 or so. It's been possible for quite a while. I've used it reliably until 10.8.2 and now it seems to be broken. Two computers, both clean installed 10.8.2, one has an external disk using Core Storage, encrypted, HFSJ. If the drive is made available via File Sharing, backup stalls for ~15 minutes with no activity, with an estimated initial backup time of 6 days for merely 55GB of data. Conversely, I can network copy files consistently at 30MB/s over AFP and 100MB/s over NFS. If the drive is directly connected to the source, Time Machine backups proceed fine. I haven't done enough regression to figure out what might be the cause, but because of the clean installs, works when direct connected, file sharing performance is normal, that there's a bug. Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
