bq. pick a disk. any disk.
a catchy phrase, along with many others on bullet #4 of apple's new-features-for-leopard website. perhaps this should be rephrased to "pick a disk (and by any we mean either USB of Firewire attached locally, or connected to an AirPort Extreme™ and shared via Bonjour, and formatted with HFS+)". i guess the later wasn't as cool.
ok. so what about those who don't have a USB of Firewire disk lying around? granted, they covered their butts by offering what the most common home user owns (oh, you don't have your own [NAS|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage] at home in the laundry room?) but some of us have some sort of network based file system in one shape or another. whether it's an lvm volume exported over NFS from a linux server, or a samba share from the family room [HTPC|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_theater_PC] running windows media center™, network based file systems are more prevalent than most would imagine. also, what are the odds that every computer in the household is running some form of mac os x?
thankfully, those brilliant engineers over at apple inc. were thinking ahead and built in some form of support. in this [how to|ht:Time Machine with Samba], i explain how to use a samba export from a linux virtual machine (xen based) as your backup media for leopard's time machine.
[click here to learn more ...|ht:Time Machine with Samba]
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a catchy phrase, along with many others on bullet #4 of apple's new-features-for-leopard website. perhaps this should be rephrased to "pick a disk (and by any we mean either USB of Firewire attached locally, or connected to an AirPort Extreme™ and shared via Bonjour, and formatted with HFS+)". i guess the later wasn't as cool.
ok. so what about those who don't have a USB of Firewire disk lying around? granted, they covered their butts by offering what the most common home user owns (oh, you don't have your own [NAS|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage] at home in the laundry room?) but some of us have some sort of network based file system in one shape or another. whether it's an lvm volume exported over NFS from a linux server, or a samba share from the family room [HTPC|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_theater_PC] running windows media center™, network based file systems are more prevalent than most would imagine. also, what are the odds that every computer in the household is running some form of mac os x?
thankfully, those brilliant engineers over at apple inc. were thinking ahead and built in some form of support. in this [how to|ht:Time Machine with Samba], i explain how to use a samba export from a linux virtual machine (xen based) as your backup media for leopard's time machine.
[click here to learn more ...|ht:Time Machine with Samba]
!timemachine.png|align=center!