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How-to: Setup multi-Mac backup shares with quotas. Easy.
Over the last couple years, I've been backing up each of my Macs to the default ReadyNAS Time Machine share. It's been OK, aside from having to hack my sparse bundles to stop them from increasing in s...
Thanks for putting this summary together. It is exactly what I have been looking for sometime now! I can't seem to get it to work for some reason and I suspect it has something to do with the text editor/naming that I am using - I created a user account for each of the Macs that I want to use time machine with i.e. - MacPro
6.) Using your favorite plain-text editor create a new plain-text file with a single line containing:
Which text editor do you use/recommend? I tried - TextEdit.app on the Mac. with a problem of only being able to create the filename with a .txt extension - i.e.( .AppleVolumes.txt/.com.apple.timemachine.supported.txt). I suspect this is giving me the problem- when a backup starts it stops with an error that says those features are not supported on the volume. Please pardon my lack of experience here...
Replace <username> with the exact spelling of the user you're connected as. (It should match the folder name in case and spelling.) Save this file as .AppleVolumes in the user's home folder.
My file .AppleVolumes for the user account MacPro reads - /c/home/MacPro ReadyNAS cnidscheme:dbd allow:MacPro options:tm
Do you see any mistakes there? Thanks for your help, Mike
6.) Using your favorite plain-text editor create a new plain-text file with a single line containing:
Which text editor do you use/recommend? I tried - TextEdit.app on the Mac. with a problem of only being able to create the filename with a .txt extension - i.e.( .AppleVolumes.txt/.com.apple.timemachine.supported.txt). I suspect this is giving me the problem- when a backup starts it stops with an error that says those features are not supported on the volume. Please pardon my lack of experience here...
/c/home/<username> ReadyNAS cnidscheme:dbd allow:<username> options:tm
Replace <username> with the exact spelling of the user you're connected as. (It should match the folder name in case and spelling.) Save this file as .AppleVolumes in the user's home folder.
My file .AppleVolumes for the user account MacPro reads - /c/home/MacPro ReadyNAS cnidscheme:dbd allow:MacPro options:tm
Do you see any mistakes there? Thanks for your help, Mike
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