Comments on: How to: Back-up Apple Macs to Any Windows Home Server Using Time Machine

By: Dae

Dae — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:32:45 +0000

Did the link to the article/blog about backing up a mac to windows home media server change?

By: Windows Home Server gets Windows 7 support | Windows Home Server

Windows Home Server gets Windows 7 support | Windows Home Server — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:48:35 +0000

[...] or monitoring capability for Macs, a highly-sought-after feature, judging by interest — and unofficial Mac backup solutions — posted to online forums by Home Server [...]

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:04:12 +0000

Awesome works great thanks for the link.

By: George Cook

George Cook — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:51:34 +0000

If you install macfuze on your mac you can read and write to ntfs drives. My macbook pro is part of my pc network. I do work on it and then upload thru the network to the whs shared folders. Using SuperDuper!, I backup directly to a folder in my users directory over a wifi connection. It's very easy.

By: Brent Friedman

Brent Friedman — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:28:17 +0000

Disk Image icons can be changed and/or overridden…

By: asperi

asperi — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:57:30 +0000

I've being used the HP's solution for almost a year, and can say for sure that they don't change anything in the system environment to fool the system or something, instead they provide completely proprietary solution (just see as their disk looks in Disk Utility). And this gives them possibility to evolve (eg. in v2.5 they added possibility to shrink and growth the disk without loss of backuped data – I love this feature). And I think they don't stop on this, so I'm eager for the next update.

To the contrary the described hack is a dead way to nowhere. Are you on it? Good luck.

By: Brent Friedman

Brent Friedman — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:31:45 +0000

@Marc Dieben,
I replied to your post on my blog.

@asperi,
Yes, it is a hack and is totally unsupported by Apple. I'm not sure if this is how HP does it, but it works.

By: ViRGE

ViRGE — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:55:35 +0000

From what I've seen, it looks like this is indeed how HP is doing it.

For what it's worth, once I set it up correctly I've never had a problem. The only real downside to this method besides the tricky setup is that you can't do TS restores from non-modified systems, such as the installation disc.

By: asperi

asperi — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:53:58 +0000

As for me it is very hackky – I would not recommend to use anything similar, because it guaranties nothing, while you'll be blindly sure, that your data are safe. Even if it works during backup (or just now), it could fail during restore (or just tomorrow).
In the case proprietary solution is not available, I would prefer manual alternative, eg. Carbon Copy Cloner or something.
Just IMO. Your safety in your hands.

By: Marc Dieben

Marc Dieben — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:09:19 +0000

This looks great, but we tried it over here with a Imac with Mac OX 10.5.7. and it did not work. We got the announcement "The disk could not be activated" when trying to back-up with Timemachine

What are we doing wrong?

Best regards,

Marc Dieben

By: Terry Walsh

Terry Walsh — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:11:56 +0000

Sorry! Link sorted.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:37:52 +0000

Thanks for the link update!

These Tag/Category links are so annoying..
Walkthough > You expect to get direct you the mentioned walkthough page.. :S