Comments on: Version 3: Use Time Machine with Windows Home Server

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:21:01 +0000

What I am wanting to know, is there a way to backup my mac to a specified Backup drive in my WHS as I do not want to back it up on the main physical drives.

I have tried to access the backup drive from inside the Mac OS X Environment but am unable to. Any input would be gratefully appreciated.

By: Bronik

Bronik — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:36:31 +0000

Also have AFP error on Lion, anybody found solution?

By: Terry Aney

Terry Aney — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:02:47 +0000

I upgraded as well and unfortunately your process no longer works. Let us know if you find a work around as I’ve been unsuccessful. Thanks.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 09:56:06 +0000

Have just upgraded to Lion, it seems to have made undesirable changes. Not sure if you have upgraded yet and experienced the AFP error?
Any suggestions?

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:05:26 +0000

I got most everything to work using “lower case computer_UPPERMAC”, but my hard drive is only 250GB and I already have 130GB of data on it so I can’t create an image bigger than 120GB and then when Time Machine goes to back it up, it says the drive size is too small. Not really sure how to get around this one, but I’d love to hear ideas.

By: Bob Blomeyer

Bob Blomeyer — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:23:59 +0000

Jeremy:

Your Version 3 procedure worked nicely for me till the last OS 10.6 update to 10.6.8.

Backups to the shared folder on WHS stopped working.

At first I thought the sparseimage I created to begin with might have run out of capacity. I did the process again and noticed if I created a sparseimage on the desktop, it wouldn’t copy into a mounted server folder.

I tried copying the image onto a big thumb drive and copied THAT into the WHS server volume.

The image is in the folder. If I mount the folder on the mac’s desktop and double click on the image, a volume titled “Time Machine” mounts on the desktop.

But still Time Machine can’t mount the image. This is the error message I get every time:

The backup disk image “/Volumes/Time_Capsule-2/MacBook.sparsebundle” could not be created (error 45).

Any insights you may have that lead to getting this trick working again would be greatly appreciated.

Thank for your consideration.

Bob Blomeyer

By: Maciek

Maciek — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:41:16 +0000

It is crucial that you name your image file correctly, otherwise you are going to waste a lot of time trying to get it work, e g in my case the mac address of an ethernet card didn’t work, as my computer uses WINS for some reason.

The solution below worked on my PowerBook G4 with OS X 10.5.8 and I was able to back-up my computer. It took over 4 hours for as little as 24GB of data though.

1. run Disk Utility
2. hit Alt+Cmd+N
3. navigate to the folder on WHS in witch you wish to keep your Time Machine Image Drive stored. Keep the window with the content of that folder visible.
4. now go to the Time Machine Preferences
5. press ‘change disk’ and choose the desired disk on WHS (the same that you have open in Disk Utility)
6. confirm changes
7. now the Time Machine will attempt to create an Image Drive for backups.
8. you should see the file name appearing in the Disk Utility’s window, write that name down. wait for TIme Machine to finish
9. follow the steps from the tutorial on top of that page — just replace the ‘save as’ name from the step 3. with the name you have written down.

Good luck!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 03:39:03 +0000

I had a tough time making this work. It was some kind of permissions issue on the WHS. I kept getting error 13.

I ended up putting the disk image in the Public Folder of the WHS and it finally worked. Not the ideal solution, but at least I’m backing up now.

By: simpdawg

simpdawg — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:01:00 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the write-up! I got this setup and working great for a couple of weeks…It was backing up over wireless and everything. Today I plugged back into Ethernet and I’m getting “Time Machine Error: Error Code: 13″. Any suggestions?

By: Yann

Yann — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:56:10 +0000

Thanks a lot, it works !