Tag: nfs

Apple Mac OS X Time Machine over NFS (10.5 or greater)

Create a Sparebundle to copy to your NFS/SMB/AFP volume hdiutil create -size $SIZEg -fs HFS+J -type SPARSEBUNDLE -volname “Backup of $MACHINENAME” $MACHINENAME_$MACADDRESS.sparsebundle Use ifconfig and sub in your $MACHINENAME_$MAC_ADRESS into the sparsebundle filename – Remove the ‘:’ chars e.g. 0018b31184dd Use hostname to get your machines hostname – Don’t use fqdn Size can be adjusted [ View Post… ]