MacOS – Time Machine backup to an SMB share Mavericks

macostime-machine

I'm following the instructions and scripts detailed in this article, but it's failing on mavericks – the mounted windows drive isn't showing up in the time machine disk selection pane.

Any ideas how to get this working?

http://lifehacker.com/5691649/an-easier-way-to-set-up-time-machine-to-back-up-to-a-networked-windows-computer

(Using Window 7 and the SMB server)

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Pulled this from MacRumors:

After you get the sparse bundle created in your desired location, mount the sparse bundle by double clicking it. It should mount just as any other drive or image file will.
Once that is done open up terminal and run this command (leave the quotes in place):
```
sudo tmutil setdestination "/Volumes/Time Machine Backups/"
```
Now open up Time Machine and turn it on. You don't have to select your disk, the command in terminal did that for you.

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I don't think you need to have one folder per workstation - each backup will be created in a .sparsebundle file, that is mounted by the remote workstation that belongs to it, and used as the backup disk.

At home I have a Mac Mini running OS X Server, and I also back up my MacBook Pro and my wife's MacBook Pro to it over WiFi. It works well, and apart from the size of the disk I imagine it would scale just fine.

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