Comments on: Time Machine & Network Drive.

By: Cole Henley

Cole Henley — Thu, 19 May 2011 09:10:59 +0000

Thanks – had assigned IP address at router.
Issues seemed to be at Mac end picking it up.
Seems to have found it now but no rhyme nor reason!

Thanks

By: D@ Mick

D@ Mick — Tue, 17 May 2011 18:13:16 +0000

@Cole: Can you assign the ip-address through your router? Or else try the admin software of your network disk. Normally you should be able to set a fixed ip-address there

By: Cole Henley

Cole Henley — Sun, 15 May 2011 08:14:56 +0000

“I just had one small problem when my router assigned a new IP to the network drive. Time Machine didn’t seem to find the drive anymore even when it was showing up in Finder. So I just fixed the problem by assigning the IP myself (not through DHCP anymore) and problem solved.”

Having the same problem on a network based backup for my MacBook Air – can you/anyone advise on how to assign the new IP address to the Time Machine partition?

By: D@ Mick

D@ Mick — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:48:24 +0000

@Joe: I drag it into the root of the network drive.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:40:40 +0000

Where on the network drive do you drag the disk image?

By: D@ Mick

D@ Mick — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:53:44 +0000

are you sure you selected “Sparse bundle disk image” and not “sparsce disk image” as image format

By: Return Privacy

Return Privacy — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 02:44:36 +0000

Hi, I tried this and found that part of your post isn’t correct:
4.Custom Volume size. Set the maximum you want to use on your remote location. Don’t worry if you don’t have the room on your Mac. Sparce Bundle Disk Images grow in size dynamically.
5.Create it and move this file to your network drive.
This is NOT true. I used disk utility to create the sparsebundle, and tried to set the size as 860gb, as I’m using a 1tb external drive, and it wouldn’t allow me to do this. I got the message that the sparsebundle size was changed to 220gb, as that is the available space on the imac I was creating the sparsebundle on (before moving it to the external drive). Now, I have Time Machine backing up to the 1tb external drive, but it is limited to 220gb! If you know how to overcome this, I would love to hear it.
Thanks

By: Filip Delannoy

Filip Delannoy — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:28:12 +0000

I also had problems creating the disk image on the network drive but solved it easily:
1. First create a sparsebundle with any name. (not imlportant)
2. Copy it to the AFP network drive partition you selected for TimeMachine and open a finder window showing that file.
3. Start the TimeMachine back-up process. It will create another sparsebundle with the correct name and with .tmp. between the name and the extension “sparsebundle”.
4. Make sure you take a screenshot of that name before it dissappears when the preparation process fails.
5. Now rename the sparsebundle file you created and copied like the one the system created (but remove the .tmp. part!)
6. Start the TimeMachine back-up process again: BINGO!

Let me know if it works for you… (filip.delannoy@gmail.com)

By: D@ Mick

D@ Mick — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:07:06 +0000

@Atea

I haven’t tested that method yet between my MacPro and MacBook but I don’t think that will work. Unless you are able to select the HD of your Mac while setting up TM to save the sparsebundle. But as far as I know, OS X doesn’t allow you to.

By: Atea Web Services

Atea Web Services — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:37:03 +0000

I want to backup from Powermac HD (Leopard) to Imac HD (Snow Leopard) and vice versa. Is that possible with this solution?

Thank you!