Setting up Time Machine with a Network Drive
Ok, so I’ve just overcome one of the big annoyances that I had with my new Mac: Configuring Time Machine to work with a shared drive. I have a 250GB Buffalo Linkstation for the specific purpose of backing up my harddrive, and I was a little annoyed to learn I couldn’t use it with my new setup.
Anyway, thanks to a few minutes searching, I found a solution
First, I had to connect to my Linkstation as a server in Finder (Go > Connect to Server), then change a setting using the following command in terminal:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
After that, it worked
Filed under: Apple by nsollecito
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