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Making Time Machine work with the ReadyNAS. Finally, a decent set of instructions on using a ReadyNAS with Time Machine. The trick is to create a local sparse disk image with a magic name (based on hostname and eth0 MAC address), then move it to the NAS.

# 4th May 2008, 5:55 pm / backups, osx, readynas, timemachine

iTimeMachine. Enables Time Machine to see network drives (a ReadyNAS NV+ for example). There’s also a defaults setting but it didn’t seem to work; this did.

# 29th January 2008, 11:33 pm / backups, itimemachine, mac, osx, readynas, timemachine