Comments on: HP MediaSmart Server EX495 – New Apple Mac Backup and Restore

By: Lokizilla

Lokizilla — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:38:27 +0000

Looks good, very good.

All I need is for this to come to the UK – I'm all set to buy one.

By: Jiff Lemon

Jiff Lemon — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:25:19 +0000

Sounds Excellent stuff! As for people saying MS should have the functionality in as standard, you can bet your last pound/dollar that if they did, the whole antitrust lot would be up in arms (again!).

MS give us the basics, we tailor it to what we want.

By: urmaster

urmaster — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:20:02 +0000

Posibbly apple product of the year 2 years running?

By: asperi

asperi — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:43:44 +0000

You should use HP proprietary software for integration with TM instead of that sparse_image_hacky method and all will be alright.

By: Mark Allanson

Mark Allanson — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:09:48 +0000

I have never been able to get the 475 reliably backing up my Macs with time machine. If I create a new sparseimage and do an initial backup all is good, but it only takes a few additional incremental backups before it starts messing up with "unable to write to backup disk" type errors. I get this on both Macs in the house.

Has anyone actually managed to get the previous mac timemachine software to actually consistently work? If so, how?

By: urmaster

urmaster — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:17:25 +0000

I don't think that's entirely fair. there hasn't been much time since launch for what is likely a very small team at hp to both develop new hardware/software and maintain the old. well actually since home server was hp's idea I take that back. but still the fact remains hp have gone leaps and bounds above the vanilla offering from ms and you can't blame them for moving forward where other manufacturers seem to have stopped and in seemingly such a short space of time. They are striking a balance between power savings and performance to support these new demands – such as video encoding – IMO they should choose AMD for their cool n quiet.

By: Terry Walsh

Terry Walsh — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:27:28 +0000

Unfortunately not – first installation must be on a PC to set up WHS, then you can install the Mac software.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:45:58 +0000

Can you actually set up the EX495 with a Mac? That was one problem I had with my EX485, I had to bring it into work for the initial setup!!

By: ike

ike — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:45:20 +0000

Terry, could you take a look at that "run" file on the restore volume in a text editor? I suspect it's just a script that somehow sets TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes to 1 and provides further instructions to the user.

By: Nero

Nero — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:25:44 +0000

yes the one that HP software update they said would be available 'shortly' after release of the previous generation of ex48x server to update the ex47x now there is a new generation of server?! , so they have skipped a whole generation and the mac time machine backup is mostly useless if you have over 100GB to backup…it smacks of poor planning to underpower 2 generations of servers and all they have really done is add software which only seems to be available upon purchase of the faster hardware…i see a pattern here…designed obsolescence, hp media smart quad core or i7 in the spring…sad and wasteful.

By: Terry Walsh

Terry Walsh — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:04:46 +0000

You mean the one that was due in the Fall this year? Maybe it's one and the same release, but rather than get 2.5, you'll get 3.0….

By: Nero

Nero — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:51:03 +0000

oh yeah and we are still waiting for the 2.5 update software for the ex470-475 series that HP promised….