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ANYONE still have Time Machine running on lastest OSX?
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Author:  oldskoolboarder [ Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:52 am ]
Post subject:  ANYONE still have Time Machine running on lastest OSX?
I've have always been impressed with my EX495 in m Mac-only home. However, with all OSX updates in the past year, I've slowly discovered that every Mac that has current OSX updates has also lost Time Machine backup capability. The EX495 still works fine as a NAS.

I have a the following, failing Time Machine backups:

1) Mac Mini Core 2 Duo running lastest Snow Leopard updates
2) Macbook Core Duo running latest Leopard
3) Mac Mini G4 running latest Leopard

ALL of these machines used to work and then started to fail last year. The ONLY machine that still backs up is a Hackintosh that uses a frozen, un-updated Leopard.

I haven't tried to reinstall the HP Client dmg (which I think would fail anyways). I've tried to do the Lion AFP fix in terminal with no luck. I've deleted backups and tried to recreate, w/ no luck. It times out with a network. I'm curious, has ANYONE been able to get Time Machine to work with the latest OSX (non-Lion)? I saw a few posts here and looks like EX495 and OSX is pretty much broken w/ no fix.

I'm considering just giving up and going Drobo FS or Synology but would prefer not to if I don't have to.
Author:  EricE [ Tue May 01, 2012 10:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: ANYONE still have Time Machine running on lastest OSX?
oldskoolboarder wrote:
I'm curious, has ANYONE been able to get Time Machine to work with the latest OSX (non-Lion)? I saw a few posts here and looks like EX495 and OSX is pretty much broken w/ no fix.


I have three 10.6 Mac's backing up via Time Machine to an HP DataVault running WHS 2011 with no problems.

I can't back my Lion Mac's up to my own WHS 2011 server - yet :? I may just do freenas in a VM - the process seems to be well documented and fairly straightforward. I was hoping MS or the Mac add-in maker for WHS 2011 would step up and improve the AFP support in WHS. Very annoying.

And my 2nd Gen Drobo hates Lion - running latest firmware and drobo dashboard. Doesn't matter if it's just used for file sharing or time machine. Triple annoying :(
Author:  oldskoolboarder [ Tue May 01, 2012 11:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: ANYONE still have Time Machine running on lastest OSX?
Interesting because my friend's Drobo FS is working w/ Time Machine and Lion. He did have to implement some AFP fixes online to get it to work though.
Author:  EricE [ Wed May 02, 2012 6:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: ANYONE still have Time Machine running on lastest OSX?
oldskoolboarder wrote:
Interesting because my friend's Drobo FS is working w/ Time Machine and Lion. He did have to implement some AFP fixes online to get it to work though.


Yeah, I have just the USB/Firewire generation 2 and it locks up with Firewire all the time, and USB... with USB a floppy drive was faster :(

Not very happy with Drobo. Such promise - but they never seemed to be able to deliver on performance.
Author:  the-oz-man [ Wed May 16, 2012 11:43 am ]
Post subject:  Re: ANYONE still have Time Machine running on lastest OSX?
Wait backup. How do you connect to the WHS console in a Mac-only environment with OSX Lion? Since upgrading to Lion, I've had zero access to the console and have had to do crazy work arounds like remoting in to another PC on my network and then login to the console. Please do share.
Author:  oldskoolboarder [ Wed May 16, 2012 11:53 am ]
Post subject:  Re: ANYONE still have Time Machine running on lastest OSX?
I've been playing w/ the Drobo FS and seems pretty solid on Snow Leopard. TM was completed w/o a hitch.

I've been migrating data over from the EX495 to the Drobo FS and the write times the Drobo are pretty good. Much better than the EX495.
Author:  EricE [ Fri May 18, 2012 9:39 am ]
Post subject:  Re: ANYONE still have Time Machine running on lastest OSX?
the-oz-man wrote:
Wait backup. How do you connect to the WHS console in a Mac-only environment with OSX Lion?


https://www.microsoft.com/mac/remote-desktop-client
Author:  the-oz-man [ Fri May 18, 2012 9:54 am ]
Post subject:  Re: ANYONE still have Time Machine running on lastest OSX?
EricE wrote:
the-oz-man wrote:
Wait backup. How do you connect to the WHS console in a Mac-only environment with OSX Lion?


https://www.microsoft.com/mac/remote-desktop-client


Thanks for the link, however, go one more step. I have no problem access the server through remote desktop. What I'm trying to do is access the WHS console. That's the meat of controlling the server for me. Am I missing something on accessing the console through the server environment???
Author:  yakuza [ Fri May 18, 2012 1:26 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: ANYONE still have Time Machine running on lastest OSX?
You run the Console on the server via CoRD or RDC.
Author:  the-oz-man [ Fri May 18, 2012 1:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: ANYONE still have Time Machine running on lastest OSX?
yakuza wrote:
You run the Console on the server via CoRD or RDC.


Thanks Alex, but I beg for a little more explaination. If I run RDC, what path do I chose for the console? I'll need to research what CoRD is.
Author:  yakuza [ Sat May 19, 2012 2:08 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: ANYONE still have Time Machine running on lastest OSX?
The home server console is on the desktop of the server, once you're logged on just double-click the icon.
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