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#APPLE CREATE IMAGE OF HARD DRIVE MAC OS#
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#APPLE CREATE IMAGE OF HARD DRIVE MAC OS#

Volume Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled).(The volume size is depends on amounts of backup data. Volume Size: the max amount of space you’re going to set aside for backups.sparsebundle, it will be added automatically) MacAlec_00ef9a048c4f.sparsebundle, if you forget to add. Open disk utility (Disk Utility) and create new virtual disk with following atributes:.

So we have to create a disk image in “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” format. This step is very important, because the TimeMachine doesn’t allow to backup data to a network drive, which has any file system except “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”. Write following path if your sharing is based on protocol samba (SMB):.Click GO and then “ connect to server” in finder menu.If you have a shared location for backup data on Linux server, you can map the directory as a drive to Mac in Finder application. Mount Network shared place for backup data If it is not this case, probably a restart is needed. For changing this fact we have to type following command to the terminal:Īfter that, you should see mounted network harddrive in TimeMachine’s locations for backup. Network hardrive support for TimeMachine is turn off by default.

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Enable network hardrive support for the TimeMachine software

Copy the sparsebundle virtual image to the network shared placeġ.

Mount network shared place for backup data.

Enable network hardrive support in TimeMachine.

You have to do following steps for to make TimeMachine successfully run a backup. This trick is accomplished via copying a sparsebundle image (with special name) to a network share. The solution is to create a place on the network, which will trick TimeMachine, into thinking that it holds data in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system. TimeMachine only supports Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system. The real problem is in the file system which must be used for TimeMachine backup. Google automatically completes the phrase as soon as you type “the backup d”.

The backup disk image could not be created If you select a network drive for backup, you will see a very familiar message: We can finally see network hardrives in selection for backup places. We’d like to use all our Minis for work and not for backup and use one of our older Linux towers to store the backup.įortunately Apple left us an option to turn-on network support for TimeMachine by running the following command in terminal:ĭefaults write TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

#APPLE CREATE IMAGE OF HARD DRIVE WINDOWS#

We have a bunch of Mac Minis in a mixed network of Linux and Windows computers. Apple had its own reasons for the decision to remove network backup, but many advanced users including us at Foliovision would still like to be able to back up over the network. OS X’s TimeMachine software had native support for network backup until the OS X Leopard 10.5.2 was released. If you have tried to set up network backup on OS X and you ran into the message “the backup disk image could not be created”, probably this article will help you.