NASLite Network Attached Storage

Has anyone been able to get Time Machine (OS-X 10.5 Leopard) to work with their NASLite?

Apparently Time Machine will not work. I'm extremely disappointed at this point, I'm currently looking for a solution, Tony and I were discussing this yesterday.

Good note thou, NASLite with AFP automatically shows up in the finder window now, makes life a little easier.

doesnt time machine require an HFS+ disk to backup to? i currently use SuperDuper! http://tinyurl.com/6krpz to backup to a disk image on my NasLite server - SuperDuper automatically mounts the image and "smart updates" the netboot compatible image as long as my macbook is on the network (it is actually a pretty darn quick process with my 802.11n network - i can sustain about 7 MB/s)

from here
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html


"Pick a disk. Any disk.
You can designate just about any HFS+ formatted FireWire or USB drive "

Hi There! I am a MacBook Pro user planning to buy a licence (Lite or Nano I still don't know) and I am wondering if the Time Machine capability is still "frozen".....
Webbing around I understood that there are workarounds available (sparse images) because of the need for TM to target an HFS+ filesystem (and not only).... but I still hope for a cheaper solution wrt Time Capsule !!!

I'll try it when i get home from work. i recently installed Leopard on my MacBook, and still use SuperDuper! and a disk image on my NASLite server, but will throw in a spare disk, and try time machine. I'm going to presume the lack of HFS+ will still be an issue...

Time Machine will see NASLite shares now. You'll still need to enable your Leopard machine to see external drives however.

Please let us know the results... I'm really interested !!

No go..

using this method:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/10/how- ... d-volumes/


and enabling network volumes via this terminal command:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

i was able to see all my Windows shares and NASLite disks, and choose any of them as the Time Machine destination, but every time i would go to start the backup, Time Machine would fail as it was creating the *.sparsebundle file it uses for the backups...



My next attempt will be to start the backup on a local disk, then copy it over to a NASLite disk, and see if i can continue to add to an already created *.sparsebundle

We will see...

I second that!

T