Wednesday, September 21, 2011

10.7: Enable Time Machine on unsupported network drives

Changes in network protocols in Lion broke Time Machine access to some legacy network drives. This hint shows how to restore it.


As I discovered with dismay Apple implemented a new version of networking protocols in Lion, which made that my network drive could no longer be accessed via Time Machine. Apple published a work-around for devices using AFP, see this KB article for that procedure.

In my case this did not help as I was accessing the network drive via SMB. Finally I found yesterday the following site which published a method which allows you to use Time Machine with legacy SMB services. I made my first Time Machine back-up last night and it worked. Here is the link.

[crarko adds: I haven't tested this one. I looked over the SMB method given at the linked site and it involves replacing the Apple backu ...

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