There are rumors that data corruption can occur if the size of the backup exceeds 2TB or if a large number of files, on the order of a million, are backed up. Needless to say, we're not advocating you backup your data like this, since Apple does not support this functionality. It should be noted that mounting a directory from your HDA via NFS let's you use time machine without this hack. This will offer you the choice to backup to your HDA shares. The Time Machine hack is a one liner command to be typed in a terminal in Mac OS X:ĭefaults write TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
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There is an unsupported way to enable using Mac OS X Time Machine to backup to your HDA. The method described below does not appear to work with Time Machine starting with Snow Leopard - it allows you to see the drives, but backups will not start successfully. WARNING - Hack ahead! For Time Machine smb users only. You can, however, manually copy files to an HDA shared folder.Īnother backup solution is a program called SuperDuper!, follow the link to see the steps and to find out about SuperDuper!.īackups with SystemRescueCD have been reported that they work, more info can be found by visiting the link.īackups with Time Machine Amahi Time Machine Application SMB (Samba) Mac OS X without Time Machine is not officially supported through automated HDA Backups at this time. for backing up your hda shares to usbdrive see Rsnapshot for an example setup.rsnapshot, a solution using rsync, with command line interface.To backup Fedora clients, the following are recommended:
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How to backup Ubuntu clients using Ubuntu's Simple Backup.
Vista or newer: Review the periodic file backups in Windows Vista to your HDA documentation.Open source - no longer under active devel. Here is a partial list (feel free to add others):įree, later version no longer open source There are a number of great open source or free backup programs out there that you can use free (commercial users should check license details). If you have good suggestions on how to do that, please add them to this section of the wiki! (Or email it to us if you're wiki-shy) We have documented ways to conduct periodic backups in various platforms.
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