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Comment 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

Comment on Time Machine & Network Drive. 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

Comment on Time Machine & Network Drive – SNOW LEOPARD UPDATE by D@ Mick

D@ Mick — Tue, 17 May 2011 18:12:00 +0000

@Nick: The your sparsebundle always has an extension, in this case, the extension is .sparsebundle.

So try to navigate to: cd Desktop/your_sparsebundle_name.sparsebundle

You can also use the “tab” key for autocompletion.

Comment on Time Machine & Network Drive. 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?

Comment on Time Machine & Network Drive – SNOW LEOPARD UPDATE by Nick

Nick — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:54:21 +0000

I have problems getting into my sparsebundle in terminal. I type “cd Desktop\my_sparsebundle_name” in all ways I can think and I am unable to get into the sparsebundle folder to make the text edit via “vi”. Terminal seems to get upset and just displays “>” and I cannot get back to any directory or complete any command. What am I doing wrong? @D@ Mick, this step in your instructions on using terminal is confusing:
“So type in the following:

cd Desktop/

is the name you gave your Sparsebundle. So in this case, your Mac name.

Now you should be inside your Sparsebundle file. “

Comment on Time Machine & Network Drive. by D@ Mick

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

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

Comment on Time Machine & Network Drive. by Joe

Joe — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:40:40 +0000

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

Comment on Time Machine & Network Drive – SNOW LEOPARD UPDATE by piers

piers — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:59:14 +0000

Woohoo – finally, the missing link for getting TimeMachine working on Snow Leopard with my NAS!

Comment on Time Machine & Network Drive. 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

Comment on Why I switched to Doctrine by D@ Mick

D@ Mick — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:49:27 +0000

Hi Niklas

I don’t know if you checked the date, but I wrote that blogpost on March 20 in 2008, that’s almost 2,5 years ago. So, yea, it is normal dat my experience mentioned in this blogpost is outdated.