• February 24, 2025, 03:10:28 AM
  • Welcome, Guest
Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

This Forum Beta is ONLY for registered owners of D-Link products in the USA for which we have created boards at this time.

Author Topic: MAC Time Machine... workarounds and RAID1 question  (Read 4921 times)

ohlarikd

  • Level 1 Member
  • *
  • Posts: 9
MAC Time Machine... workarounds and RAID1 question
« on: December 08, 2009, 08:20:56 PM »
Ok, so I guess I didn't do my homework and Time Machine on the Mac doesn't like a NAS.  Stupid.

I found this article:
http://www.readynas.com/?p=253

The problem is, I need to make a 400g backup sparsebundle, but I only have 90GB of room left on my main drive.  So I cannot make the required file to transfer to the NAS.

I noticed that I CAN make this sparsebundle if I use an external hard drive enclosure.  So I thought I could take the primary RAID1 drive out of my DNS-321 (I have two Seagate 1.5TB drives), make the sparsebundle on it, then put it back in the network drive.  However - will RAID automatically copy this file to the backup HD?? Or is data written to the disk independently not going to be backed up???

Derek

 
Logged

ECF

  • Administrator
  • Level 11 Member
  • *
  • Posts: 2692
Re: MAC Time Machine... workarounds and RAID1 question
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2009, 09:49:31 AM »
I'm not sure that will work you are going to have to format the drive to work in your computer and then format it again in ext2 or 3 to work in the DNS-321 again unless I am not understanding your procedure correctly. Unless you are saying your just going to use your second drive from the RAID on your computer so you have enough space and make the sparsebundle then just move it over to the DNS-321 standard drive now. Then format the drive you put in the PC and set it back up in the DNS-321 and allow it to format and re-sync. That may work however I don't know how well it will go if you ever need to us the backup but that is something you will need to test unless someone on the forums has experience with this.
« Last Edit: December 09, 2009, 09:59:36 AM by ECF »
Logged
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream

ohlarikd

  • Level 1 Member
  • *
  • Posts: 9
Re: MAC Time Machine... workarounds and RAID1 question
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2009, 08:31:06 AM »
I figured it out.  Did not have to mount the Primary drive into a USB enclosure.  I left the NAS on my network.  The instructions posted on the web seem to vary from OS version to OS version.  For me on my Mac Mini running 10.5, this worked:

Make sure MAC Computer Name under 'System Preferences -> Sharing' is set to something without spaces or special characters', like 'MACmini'

MACmini:MacMiniSeagate Derek$ ifconfig en0 | grep ether
    ether 00:16:cb:ab:45:a4
MACmini:MacMiniSeagate Derek$

MACmini:MacMiniSeagate Derek$ pwd
/Volumes/MacMiniSeagate


Use: MACmini_0016ab45a4 in the next command


MACmini:MacMiniSeagate Derek$ hdiutil create -size 300g -fs HFS+J -type SPARSEBUNDLE -volname "MACmini_Backup" MACmini_0016cbab45a4.sparsebundle
created: /MACmini_0016cbab45a4.sparsebundle

MACmini:MacMiniSeagate Derek$ defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
MACmini:MacMiniSeagate Derek$

MACmini:MacMiniSeagate Derek$ cp -r MACmini_0016cbab45a4.sparsebundle /Volumes/Volume_1/.

Go to Finder and Connect to
Shared: dlink-683a77: Volume_1: connect as '$Username'
Go to Time Machine, select backup disk 'Volume_1'

Logged