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Anyone got thier bubba two server to work with time machine for backup storage?

patber wrote:Anyone got thier bubba two server to work with time machine for backup storage?

Sorry I don't have a Bubba Two (yet), so I have not tried it. But I can get it to work with a couple of Macs on the old Bubba.
You may need to enter the "defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes -bool yes" hack on your Mac.

See the http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?p ... ight=#3545

Have don't that and follow the thread, but I still can't get it to work, I find the share on bubba but it fails, after searching for info I found that you should make an image and copy it over to the bubba, but still no cigarr for me

any clues?

Tim wrote:

patber wrote:Anyone got thier bubba two server to work with time machine for backup storage?

Sorry I don't have a Bubba Two (yet), so I have not tried it. But I can get it to work with a couple of Macs on the old Bubba.
You may need to enter the "defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes -bool yes" hack on your Mac.

See the http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?p ... ight=#3545

Anyone got thier bubba two server to work with time machine for backup storage?

Yes, it has been running nicely for three weeks here - including going back in time, i.e. the "starry-night" gimmick.

Set up requires some tricks, documented elsewhere and not specific to the Bubba/II box. Googling again. I think I used these instructions:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php? ... 8173642747

I remember trying to create a TM disk from the Mac and watching the designated samba area on the Bubba to see what is what doing. Then manually creating a sparse disk image with Disk Utility, since the normal TM stops and deletes the image it tried to create.

Once it works, you'll have a directory called 'AAAAA_BBBBBBBBBBBB.sparsebundle', where AAAAA is the name of your client Mac, and BBBBBBBBBBBB is its ethernet MAC address.

It works really well: the "Time Machine disk" is mounted, the backup changes are written, and the disk is unmounted again once every hour. With a wireless Mac, the whole process becomes completely automatic: hourly backups without having to even think about it anymore.

Again: the issues you're having are not specific to the Bubba, it's simply that TM backups on Samba is not officially supported.

Good luck,
-jcw

Just did this a few days ago following the instructions on the following URL:

http://adamcohenrose.blogspot.com/2008/ ... thout.html

No sweat what so ever setting this up and it works great as well over samba.

Cheers,
R

Is this for external HD on bubba? or is it ok to backup to just the the bubba?

Ok i have followed http://adamcohenrose.blogspot.com/2008/ ... thout.html this guide =( first i defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
then with correct mac and computer name

DISK_IMAGE_NAME="xyz_xxxx.sparsebundle"
DISK_SIZE=100000
hdiutil create -library SPUD -megabytes $DISK_SIZE -fs HFS+J -type SPARSEBUNDLE -volname "$DISK_IMAGE_NAME" "$DISK_IMAGE_NAME"

then copy it to storage on bubba two but when i try to make backup i get some error that it cant be placed on desk "skrivbord" is there anything more i have to do before it works???