Comments on: OSX Timemachine and Samba/Windows share http://hupio.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/osx-timemachine-and-sambawindows-share/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:40:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: David Jameson http://hupio.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/osx-timemachine-and-sambawindows-share/#comment-70 David Jameson Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:40:03 +0000 http://hupio.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-70 Glad it worked for you --- I guess I should have done it as a shell-script in the first place, but I just happened to have .bashrc open at the time so that was convenient. Glad it worked for you — I guess I should have done it as a shell-script in the first place, but I just happened to have .bashrc open at the time so that was convenient.

]]> By: Jeremy http://hupio.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/osx-timemachine-and-sambawindows-share/#comment-68 Jeremy Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:11:31 +0000 http://hupio.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-68 David Jameson, your function worked perfectly. I just made a simple shell script called 'tmvol.sh', removed the function wrapper, and passed the size as first param like './tmvol.sh 250'. Worked great! Thanks! David Jameson, your function worked perfectly. I just made a simple shell script called ‘tmvol.sh’, removed the function wrapper, and passed the size as first param like ‘./tmvol.sh 250′. Worked great! Thanks!

]]> By: David Jameson http://hupio.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/osx-timemachine-and-sambawindows-share/#comment-67 David Jameson Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:04:46 +0000 http://hupio.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-67 By the way, I found a very useful shareware program called "Back in time" that's rather useful if you're administering multiple backups...it will open any of the sparse bundles and let you get at whatever you need. http://www.tri-edre.fr/english/backintime.html By the way, I found a very useful shareware program called “Back in time” that’s rather useful if you’re administering multiple backups…it will open any of the sparse bundles and let you get at whatever you need.

http://www.tri-edre.fr/english/backintime.html

]]> By: David Jameson http://hupio.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/osx-timemachine-and-sambawindows-share/#comment-66 David Jameson Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:01:45 +0000 http://hupio.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-66 I have now done this for 4 different machines. To make it more convenient, I created a .bashrc function as follows function maketimemachinesparsebundle() { size=$1g macaddress=`ifconfig en0 | grep ether | sed s/://g | sed s/ether\ // | tr -d [:space:]` hostname=`echo $HOSTNAME | sed s/.local//` volname="Backup of $hostname" diskname="$hostname"_"$macaddress".sparsebundle sudo hdiutil create -size $size -type SPARSEBUNDLE -nospotlight -volname "$volname" -fs "Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+" -imagekey sparse-band-size=262144 -verbose $diskname } So now all you have to write maketimemachinesparsebundle 200 to create a 200Gb sparse bundle ready for use I have now done this for 4 different machines. To make it more convenient, I created a .bashrc function as follows

function maketimemachinesparsebundle()
{
size=$1g
macaddress=`ifconfig en0 | grep ether | sed s/://g | sed s/ether\ // | tr -d [:space:]`
hostname=`echo $HOSTNAME | sed s/.local//`
volname=”Backup of $hostname”
diskname=”$hostname”_”$macaddress”.sparsebundle

sudo hdiutil create -size $size -type SPARSEBUNDLE -nospotlight -volname “$volname” -fs “Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+” -imagekey sparse-band-size=262144 -verbose $diskname

}

So now all you have to write

maketimemachinesparsebundle 200

to create a 200Gb sparse bundle ready for use

]]> By: Matt http://hupio.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/osx-timemachine-and-sambawindows-share/#comment-65 Matt Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:27:19 +0000 http://hupio.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-65 Wow. This works like a charm with my Windows fileshares + Mac laptops (looks like I'm not alone) and is exactly the kind of support I like to see coming out of the Mac community. Awesome job!! Mac lovers appreciate macs for their simplicity. However, still gotta be able to tinker every so often to make it truly powerful. Kudos. Matt Wow. This works like a charm with my Windows fileshares + Mac laptops (looks like I’m not alone) and is exactly the kind of support I like to see coming out of the Mac community. Awesome job!!

Mac lovers appreciate macs for their simplicity. However, still gotta be able to tinker every so often to make it truly powerful.

Kudos.

Matt

]]> By: Simon C http://hupio.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/osx-timemachine-and-sambawindows-share/#comment-64 Simon C Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:21:48 +0000 http://hupio.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-64 Awesome! This works really well. I am now using time machine to backup my MBP wirelessly to a USB drive attached to a windows XP machine on my wired network. It took a bit of fiddling with my firewall settings, and as other people noted above the drive name needs to exactly the same as the name of the Mac Book but now all works a treat. Saves me having to buy an Airport Extreme just to share a USB external HDD across the network! Only question I have is about the implication in backing up to a drive that is formatted NTFS and not for Mac OSX? Excellent work! Simon Awesome!

This works really well. I am now using time machine to backup my MBP wirelessly to a USB drive attached to a windows XP machine on my wired network.
It took a bit of fiddling with my firewall settings, and as other people noted above the drive name needs to exactly the same as the name of the Mac Book but now all works a treat. Saves me having to buy an Airport Extreme just to share a USB external HDD across the network! Only question I have is about the implication in backing up to a drive that is formatted NTFS and not for Mac OSX?

Excellent work!

Simon

]]> By: Marty http://hupio.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/osx-timemachine-and-sambawindows-share/#comment-62 Marty Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:24:27 +0000 http://hupio.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-62 Works great, thanks a lot! Regarding the worries about full restore, the screenshots at http://blog.duncandavidson.com/2008/01/restoring-from-time-machine.html suggest that it should be possible to connect to a remote disk (the samba share) at the time you boot from the OS X DVD. Haven't tried it myself though. Worst case scenario would be a clean install and then restoring your personal files from there, I guess. Works great, thanks a lot!

Regarding the worries about full restore, the screenshots at http://blog.duncandavidson.com/2008/01/restoring-from-time-machine.html suggest that it should be possible to connect to a remote disk (the samba share) at the time you boot from the OS X DVD. Haven’t tried it myself though. Worst case scenario would be a clean install and then restoring your personal files from there, I guess.

]]> By: Buee http://hupio.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/osx-timemachine-and-sambawindows-share/#comment-60 Buee Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:25:35 +0000 http://hupio.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-60 Absolute genius! Been trying to get this going for weeks. Thanks. One concern I have is, does it go by the MAC address in the sparse bundle? I ask because I would like to do the initial backup via gigabit ethernet, but that will obviously have a different MAC address. Absolute genius! Been trying to get this going for weeks. Thanks.

One concern I have is, does it go by the MAC address in the sparse bundle? I ask because I would like to do the initial backup via gigabit ethernet, but that will obviously have a different MAC address.

]]> By: David Jameson http://hupio.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/osx-timemachine-and-sambawindows-share/#comment-59 David Jameson Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:32:40 +0000 http://hupio.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-59 Perhaps this is a silly question, but if I have mounted the share, why can't Time Machine create the bundle itself on the share? Why does this have to be done manually? Perhaps this is a silly question, but if I have mounted the share, why can’t Time Machine create the bundle itself on the share? Why does this have to be done manually?

]]> By: Bart http://hupio.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/osx-timemachine-and-sambawindows-share/#comment-58 Bart Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:54:00 +0000 http://hupio.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-58 Thanks for the tip. I'll second the suggestion to use Console to view the correct name for the sparse bundle. I forgot that my computer name was mixed-case, but the logs in Console revealed the correct name. Some have asked about restoring from a backup done this way. I just figured that out. I'm not sure if it's possible to do the restore during the system install, but it can be done after through Applications->Utilities->Migration Assistant. You don't have to have Time Machine configured to use the Samba share, but you do have to mount the Samba share in Finder, as described in this article. Then double-click the sparse bundle. This will verify and mount it. Now run Migration Assistant, and select "From a Time Machine backup or other disk." Your backup will appear there, and you can restore from it. Thanks for the tip. I’ll second the suggestion to use Console to view the correct name for the sparse bundle. I forgot that my computer name was mixed-case, but the logs in Console revealed the correct name.

Some have asked about restoring from a backup done this way. I just figured that out.

I’m not sure if it’s possible to do the restore during the system install, but it can be done after through Applications->Utilities->Migration Assistant.

You don’t have to have Time Machine configured to use the Samba share, but you do have to mount the Samba share in Finder, as described in this article. Then double-click the sparse bundle. This will verify and mount it. Now run Migration Assistant, and select “From a Time Machine backup or other disk.” Your backup will appear there, and you can restore from it.

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