Time machine

[patber]

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

[Tim]

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

[patber]

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?

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

[jcw]

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

[rweststr]

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

[winzhangout]

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

[winzhangout]

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???