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I tried doing this, but usbdisk1 is a random file....

2011-05-01T08:48:25.075+09:00

I tried doing this, but usbdisk1 is a random file... not a folder. How can I move the .dmg into usbdisk1 if it's just a file? (If that it correct, anyway...)

I've spent several weeks looking through a lon...

2011-01-15T20:25:38.433+09:00

I've spent several weeks looking through a long list of posts on the topic and with this, I finally got it working! THANK YOU! I was on the verge of looking into an entirely different solution due to the frustration. :)

Much appreciated.

Awesome! After months of banging my head against t...

2011-01-09T14:23:46.336+09:00

Awesome! After months of banging my head against the wall trying to get TM to "create a disk image" with my MacBook Pro and my Buffalo LinkStation LS-Q2, this worked!

I haven't done a restore yet but, I'm not worried. We'll see how it goes.

Thanks again!

Guy in SoCal

I followed all the beautiful instructions and it w...

2010-11-22T11:37:18.064+09:00

I followed all the beautiful instructions and it worked really good. I also use TM editor to do backups once a day. However after 12-14 days (backups) TM stops showing a message "To improve reliability it must create a new backup for you". If I click on "start new backup" the history and everything is deleted and I had to create a new sparse bundle file on NAS in order to have backups again. Then the same story (12-14 backups) repeated. Any ideas how to fix that? Thanks much. Alex

Thanks Newb it almost woks as described on my Link...

2010-11-08T07:10:06.257+09:00

Thanks Newb it almost woks as described on my LinkStation. Except that the folder on the NAS seems to small. TM stops because it says the Disk is too small and indeed the share appear in TM as 5GB in size whereas it is not mimited in size and there is ample size on the disk.
I defined the TM folder on the NAS but can't find were to set the size. Other folders (not for TM) have no other size limit than the disk size. What did I missed?
Matt

Many thanks Newb - I followed your instructions an...

2010-10-28T18:02:14.600+09:00

Many thanks Newb - I followed your instructions and it is backing up now (finally). Only another 300GB to go.

:-)

wrong mac address, use wireless mac address

2010-01-08T10:07:31.537+09:00

wrong mac address, use wireless mac address

Got it to work on the wired connection but not on ...

2009-09-17T03:18:34.287+09:00

Got it to work on the wired connection but not on the wireless, any ideas?

Newb, Tried the following steps with the noted re...

2009-09-16T06:50:44.960+09:00

Newb,

Tried the following steps with the noted result, any ideas?

1. defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes
2. rebooted my system
3. created the share iMac on my Terastation
4. turned off TimeMachine
5. used System Preferences to get the Mac address of my AirPort adapter
6. ran the command hdiutil create -size 300g -fs HFS+J -volname "Backup of iMac1" iMac1_"The Macaddress from my airport adapter with the colons removed".sparsebundle
7. did your step 6
8. did your step 7
9. did your step 8 except I received a Time Machine Error with the message "The backup disk image could note be created"

EJ, I just realized than when I wrote the post, th...

2009-08-11T22:57:10.289+09:00

EJ, I just realized than when I wrote the post, the format required for the naming convention of sparesbundle did not display correctly. I fear I may have used angle brackets which did not display properly in the post. I have updated the post and replaced the angle brackets with square brackets.

Again to clarify, the "hostname" is the name that you set for your mac. You can run the command "hostname" in the terminal to verify your hostname.

I really hope this is the source of your problem and that it prevents issues for others in the future.

Good luck and let us know how it goes.

Hey EJ, I remember seeing this error when I was f...

2009-08-11T22:48:57.583+09:00

Hey EJ,

I remember seeing this error when I was first playing around a while back but unfortunately I do not remember at which stage I got this error.

Some things that I can think of which could cause problems.

1) Ensure that you have rebooted the system after running the command in step #1
2) In step #4, make sure that you are using the following format: [hostname]_[mac address].sparsebundle. [hostname] being the name of your Mac.
3) Make sure that in step #4 that you create the file locally and then copy the file to the server.

I hope that one of these suggestions help to resolve your issue.

Almost every thing worked well but I still get the...

2009-08-11T19:48:17.749+09:00

Almost every thing worked well but I still get the error:"The backup disk image could not be mounted".
No matter what I get this error.
I thought it was great when the system changed screens to Time Machine. Freaked me out for a minute. After that I pointed Time Machine to my NAS but it still failed.

ej

Anonymous, thank you for correcting my mistake. Yo...

2009-08-02T00:26:41.089+09:00

Anonymous, thank you for correcting my mistake. You are absolutely correct.

I have edited my post with scripting boxes to ensure that none of the special characters are accidently removed. I hope this helps to limit the issues that may arise.

try just "ifconfig en0 | grep ether"

2009-07-30T20:50:37.313+09:00

try just "ifconfig en0 | grep ether"

Thank you for your article. Regrettably I can'...

2009-07-21T05:55:55.352+09:00

Thank you for your article. Regrettably I can't get your solution to work. Whenever I type in "ifconfig en0 grep ether" I get an error message of "bad value". I have a few Windows Vista machines hanging off my Terastation Live server and they work fine. However, with my MacBook using 10.5.7 of the OS get very very slow file copy performance and I can't create the sparsebundle to use TimeMachine. Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

As you might be able to tell I'm a MAC newbie and even the terminal commands are a bit foreign to me.

Thanks, in advance, for your help on both (file copy and Time Machine) issues.