Comments on: Getting Time Machine to work on an Unsupported NAS

By: snakeamine

snakeamine — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:10:50 +0000

Hello,
vinnycoyne wich server are you using?

By: vinnycoyne

vinnycoyne — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:23:47 +0000

Worked perfectly. Thanks!

By: nicovalin

nicovalin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:02:15 +0000

Thank you very much for this post. Super useful and it works… even though I am not an expert!

By: davidpomar

davidpomar — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:51:42 +0000

Hi there

I followed all of your instructions and I started the back-up. After a few minutes I got an error message:

Time Machine Error
The backup disk image could not be mounted

I can read/write to this drive through the finder, but time machine keeps giving me this error…I am using a Linksys NAS200.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated…

By: voxarcana

voxarcana — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:55:43 +0000

My apologies for the late replies… I’ve been busy and not tracked back as often as I would’ve liked.

@shorty0927, replace the quotation marks with the proper “”s. When you copy/paste from the web site, you will get a different set.

@brettyboo, thanks for the kudus. Congrats on getting it to work!

@1stmac, Your command looks okay. Retry it again, perhaps?

By: dbmgreen

dbmgreen — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:16:55 +0000

Can I copy the old bundle from my usb drive and use that?
And can I automount network drives at login?

By: 1stmac

1stmac — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:15:20 +0000

Hi There,
When you executed hdiutil command, how long did it take for mac to create sparsebundle?

When I execute this command all I see is a “>” cursor. Not sure if the script is running or what. Even after 4 hours it was the same. Please see the output of my terminal window:

kennys-macbook-3:~ kenny$ sudo hdiutil create -size 60g -type SPARSEBUNDLE -nospotlight -volname “MacBackup” -fs “Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+” -verbose ./Kenny’s MacBook_001f5be69e79
>
Do you know what am I doing wrong???? Thanks!

By: brettyboo

brettyboo — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:45:58 +0000

Brilliant post! I think Mac users should use the typical workflows that are provided by Apple software, but NOT be pushed toward using specific Apple hardware as a result.

I have a FreeNAS server which does backups of all my machines, inc Vista, Linux and now, thanks to this post, a Mac

By: shorty0927

shorty0927 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:42:44 +0000

I’m having some trouble getting the hdiutil command to work for me. I’m getting the message:

hdiutil: create: Only one image can be created at a time.

I entered it just as you have written out in the instructions. Any ideas?