Comments on: Mac Leopard and WHS do NOT Play Nicely

By: mac leopard

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By: David

David — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:11:32 +0000

You might want to try this – I just found it but it looks promising.

http://www.multimedia-pcs.com/how-to-use-time-machine-with-a-windows-home-server/

By: Darin

Darin — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:54:12 +0000

Leopard does NOT worky smoothly with WHS. All files show up as ZERO bytes when viewed from my Mac Pro. I have frequent connectivity issues and strange mapping problems that make folder look like they have moved. I have none of these problems when accessing WHS shares from XP or Vista.

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:35:33 +0000

Hi Rich,
Thanks for the info.

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:47:25 +0000

Hey guys,

I have tried this http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/10/how-to-enable-time-machine-on-unsupported-volumes/ and it works just fine…. Am currently using it to backup to a NAS drive I have.

Rich

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:35:09 +0000

Hi DigitalDude,
Did your USB drive method work?

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:34:28 +0000

Thanks for your comments Chris Boulton, Fanboy and Brian.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:45:14 +0000

Another reason for WHS not working with Time Machine is probably due to the metadata that is included on HFS+ filesystems that shows up as .DS_Store and . files on SMB shares accessed by a Mac.

Now I’m wondering if Apple will join the home server fray and come out with their own system that will work as a back-end for Time Machine but will leave the Windows users high and dry backup-wise.

By: DigitalDude

DigitalDude — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:05:33 +0000

Others are having success with this solution for a NAS. I wonder if we can modify it to work with WHS:

You need an external USB drive

Connect the drive and format it HFS+
for this example I will name it backup
Set it up as the Time Machine drive once formatted.

Go into system preferences and turn off Time Machine.

Go into FrontView and create a share, for this example I will name it backups, set a quota you want to use I did double my Mac’s hard drive

Open terminal
type the following commands

cd /

cd Volumes

ls -a -l (make note of .00 filename)

cp ./backup/.00filename ./backups/.00filename

cp ./backup/.com.apple.timemachine.supported ./backups/.com.apple.timemachine.supported

sudo umount backup
sudo umount backups

then go back into Frontview and rename backups volume to backup
connect to ReadyNAS through finder afp://IPADDRESS
choose backup volume to connect to

Relaunch TimeMachine…

By: DigitalDude

DigitalDude — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:33:29 +0000

I bought WHS on the announcement it would allow Time Machine Backups. Anyone know of a working solution or have a feeling if it will soon be supported?

By: Fanboy

Fanboy — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:03:04 +0000

Huh? NTFS cannot do hard links? Do your homework, pls…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link

There is even a utility called fsutil in Windows to create hardlinks…..

By: Chris Boulton

Chris Boulton — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:27:48 +0000

It wasn’t withdrawn last minute either – and support wasn’t scaled back. It’s just that the technology isn’t possible with volumes apart from those running the HFS+ file system (with AFP, network volumes are treated as HFS)

The reason being is that the NTFS file system does not support hard links, which are what are used by Time Machine for the backups.

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:52:26 +0000

Hi gn!uz,
Thanks for your comment. Prehaps I was a bit hasty in posting this. I got the info from another mac user, not being one my self I could not check, so thank you for posting your experience with it.

By: gn!uz

gn!uz — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:41:49 +0000

I think the topic title is misleading. Leopard works very smooth with Windows Home Server (SMB shares). I’m using it!!
It’s just not possible at this time to use these SMB shares as backup resource for Timemachine. So for the time being, just hook-up an external disk to your mac. It seems Timemachine is capable of backing up to the FAT filesystem and there a some workarounds that make it possible to backup over the network.. And in time Timemachine will have the possibility to backup over SMB shares.. Just not yet.. I don’t see why this has anything to do with Windows Home Server..

I’m using Bootcamp with Leopard and have installed the Connector software for Vista! In Leopard I use all the available shares on the Windows Home Server.. Rock solid!!!