Comments on: A poor man’s apple time capsule (wireless router + home NAS)

By: How to use a D-Link DNS 323 as a TimeMachine | rootsmith Inc.

How to use a D-Link DNS 323 as a TimeMachine | rootsmith Inc. — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:15:47 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:05:32 +0000

This site explains essentially the same proccess, but it works on OS X 10.6. The method explained above refused to play ball. (although I am running it with a shared drive from a Linux pc…)

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=184462

By: Chris Fourie

Chris Fourie — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:27:59 +0000

Hi, I hope you still get these replies.
I’m setting up a Linux file server, which will have about 1.5TB of space on it, will it be possible to make a Time Machine drive from that space using the methods described above? Or does it have to have the DNS 323… whatever that might be?

Regards,

Chris

By: eapen

eapen — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:58:13 +0000

Found this which helps create the sparse bundle - http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=184462

By: DT880

DT880 — Mon, 31 May 2010 10:52:11 +0000

Oops…skipped a step

By: DT880

DT880 — Sun, 30 May 2010 23:40:59 +0000

My volume doesn’t show up in Time Machine? Any thoughts?

By: Omev

Omev — Sun, 30 May 2010 04:12:49 +0000

FINALLY got this to work on my Snow Leopard MacBook Pro!

key missing step for getting this working up and running for me: installing AFP.

Essentially follow Steps 1-6 from http://wiki.dns323.info/howto:1st_steps

Then enter the following commands…
cd /mnt/HD_a2/ffp/pkg
/ffp/sbin/funpkg -i netatalk*
/ffp/sbin/funpkg -i db42*

Then do Step 4 from http://wiki.dns323.info/howto:appletalk

Thanks!

By: eapen

eapen — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:59:05 +0000

And here I am again - it does look like the sparseimage got resized to 1.34TB upon subsequent backup attempts. Any advice?

By: eapen

eapen — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:05:29 +0000

Never mind, I was impatient. It still shows the 476.30 GB available once that process completed.

By: eapen

eapen — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:52:40 +0000

I tried this on Snow Leopard and when I did the “tail -f /var/log/system.log | grep backupd”, it shows that it is Resizing the backup disk image from 476.8 GB to 1374.3 GB (I had created a 512 GB sparsebundle). Any clues on how to prevent the resizing?