I did this for years by manually mounting the remote volume, running the initial backup, and then dismounting. Turn out that Time Machine is smart enough to mount the remote volume by itself after that.
However, I ran into this pernicious bug where the machine hosting the drive would begin losing the count of network detachments from file sharing, while keeping scrupulous count of the network attachments. After a while, it would decide that more than 10 users were simultaneously filesharing from it, and refuse to allow any more. I would have to turn off File Sharing on that machine for 30 seconds to flush the counter, then turn it back on. It got to the point where I was doing this every day or two, and the bug survived several major OSes. So I took the plunge and ordered the Server version of the OS. (That was back in Snow Leopard — now the Server is more of an additional application package you install on the standard OS.) The bad news is that this reduced the problem, but didn’t eliminate it, at least in Snow Leopard. The better news is that since Mountain Lion or so, I haven’t seen that particular problem. Since then, I’ve found other value to running Server, including preserving the ability for my family to continue to use shared calendars (after Apple killed Sync Services in Lion) without being forced to blow all the details of our lives out to “the cloud,” and the ability to suck down system updates only once instead of once for every machine we own. So in my opinion, for the minor price of the package, if you’re going to run a machine as “a server,” run Server. On Oct 30, 2014, at 11:32 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] <di...@niehs.nih.gov> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a new Mac Pro (cylinder style) and an old Mac Pro (tower style), both > running the latest Mavericks. I would like to set up a disk on the old mac > pro that can be used for TimeMachine backups of the new mac pro. How do I do > this? > > Both macs are connected via gigabit ethernet to the same router. I can > successfully do screen sharing and file sharing. I thought perhaps I just > needed to share my TimeMachine disk on the old mac (via the File Sharing > panel in System Preferences), but when I tried this, I could not see that > disk when choosing a TimeMachine disk on the new mac. I could only see disks > that are directly attached to the new mac. > > Is it possible to do TimeMachine backups of one mac to a disk on another mac > via ethernet? If so, what do I need to do? > > Thanks, > > Gregg > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
