[Leo] Time Machine backing drive on other Mac? in All Things Macintosh http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21534209 en Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:41:16 EDT Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:41:16 EDT Re: [Leo] Time Machine backing drive on other Mac? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21535524 nixen :
said by joetaxpayer See Profile :

I did Google, and I bought "Mac OS X Leopard, the missing manual" to help avoid too many stupid questions.

The latest Mac (G4 MDD) is running Leopard, my older faithful Mac is still Panther. Can the Leopard machine back up drives from the Panther one?

I can see each machine from the other, in the finder and using AAsync, but not when I open Time Machine. If not, I suppose I can sync the files I want over to the Leopard machine and let it TM from there, just curious if this is a TM feature I am not seeing.
Joe
You'd need to do a couple things to make it work:
* Set up the leopard system to offer shares via AFP
* Set up a virtual disk/volume within that share.
* Configure your local copy of TimeMachine to allow the use of a network-presented hard drive
* Reboot your box for those settings to take effect
* Mount the AFP-provided virtual disk image on your system
* Tell TimeMachine to use that volume

You're basically looking to do something similar to this.

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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21535524 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:10:44 EDT Re: [Leo] Time Machine backing drive on other Mac? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21534932 joetaxpayer : Exactly. Thanks for checking. So it's not that Panther on the other machine is the issue. Hmmm, that's too bad, this feature seems easy to implement, and useful to multi-Mac families.
Again, Thanks]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21534932 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:46:28 EDT Re: [Leo] Time Machine backing drive on other Mac? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21534684 BuckarooB : okay I guess not then, I have a network connected folder between two Leopard Macs and it does not show up in TM to chose NOT to backup.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21534684 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:05:18 EDT Re: [Leo] Time Machine backing drive on other Mac? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21534654 joetaxpayer : I think so.
On the Panther drive, in the old machine, the read/write permissions are all set.
In a finder screen on the Leopard, I see the Panther drive in the sidebar, and can look at it as if it were local. But it does not show as an available drive in TM.
Joe]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21534654 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:59:44 EDT Re: [Leo] Time Machine backing drive on other Mac? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21534441 BuckarooB : Have you tried mounting a shared drive off of the Panther Mac? Does it show up in TM?
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The latest Mac (G4 MDD) is running Leopard, my older faithful Mac is still Panther. Can the Leopard machine back up drives from the Panther one?

I can see each machine from the other, in the finder and using AAsync, but not when I open Time Machine. If not, I suppose I can sync the files I want over to the Leopard machine and let it TM from there, just curious if this is a TM feature I am not seeing.
Joe]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21534209 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:30:09 EDT