zenandjuice.com » Mac OSX http://zenandjuice.com the website of chris bray Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:27:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Time Machine backups via network shares http://zenandjuice.com/2007/11/time-machine-backups-via-network-shares/ http://zenandjuice.com/2007/11/time-machine-backups-via-network-shares/#comments Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:20:02 +0000 zenandjuice http://zenandjuice.com/2007/11/09/time-machine-backups-via-network-shares/ [...]]]> By default, Apple’s Leopard (OS 10.5) only allows Time Machine to backup to connected drives.

“Mindflux” posted a workaround to allow network drives to be used !

Run this from terminal and load up time machine to select your drive! You don’t need to hook the drive up to the Mac first, you dont have to go chowning files and all that nonsense.

Code:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

Even easier, someone wrote an automator script that does this for you.

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by default, Mac OSX will not show hidden files (those beginning with a period) in Finder.

You can change this behavior by typing this command in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUEkillall Finder

to reverse it, change TRUE to FALSE.

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