[X4U] Time Machine and NAS?

[Nick Scalise]

On Oct 23, 2007, at 5:48 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

>> At 2:54 PM -0700, 10/23/07, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone seen any info on if the "Time Machine" feature in 10.5  
>>> will work
>>> with NAS (network attached storage)?  Or is it limited to an  
>>> external disk?
>>
>> Apple says that a drive attached to the AirPort 802.11n works with
>> Time Machine so that would say that network drives are good.
>
> Interesting.  I was also looking at the info page on "Time Machine"  
> and it
> mentions backing up to another Leopard Mac with Personal File Sharing,
> Leopard Server, or XSan.  So far all of this seem to indicate that  
> while you
> can do it, you have to do it to Apple Hardware/Software.
>
> I've been hoping to use a very low power Linux box and a RAID card  
> to build
> my own NAS device.  Unfortunately, it sounds like that probably  
> won't work.

MacInTouch has updated their Leopard FAQ and they state you can use  
any old NAS storage.

<http://www.macintouch.com/leopard/faq.html#tm>

Q: Can Time Machine back up to a NAS (network attached storage, such  
as Buffalo Linkstation, Western Digital Netcenter, AirPort Disk etc)

A: Yes. Time Machine will create a sparse (expandable) disk image on  
a network file volume. It should work with NAS devices.

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Nick Scalise
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