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Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / May 2008Another Time Machine nicety
I was thinking only a few moments ago that it must be a few days now since I've backed up, and I really must fire up the Time Machine disk and let it do its thing. A dialogue alert just popped up saying Time Machine hasn't backed up for 10 days, you should ought to back up, y'know? Nice to know the application designers understand human frailty.  SignaturePd > I was thinking only a few moments ago that it must be a few days now > since I've backed up, and I really must fire up the Time Machine disk [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > 10 days, you should ought to back up, y'know? Nice to know the > application designers understand human frailty. On that note, my Time Machine backup to a remote Samba share seems to be working nicely. I'd probably have a hard time restoring my entire system from it, so it's far from perfect, but it's certainly better than what I had before, ie nothing. Jim Signature"Well, well. We've come a long way from the Prime Minister's exploding cake." - Adam West, Batman. Find me at http://www.UrsaMinorBeta.co.uk >> I was thinking only a few moments ago that it must be a few days now >> since I've backed up, and I really must fire up the Time Machine disk [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >On that note, my Time Machine backup to a remote Samba share seems to be >working nicely. Likewise here (again, thanks to Herve for getting me to look at it once more). >I'd probably have a hard time restoring my entire system >from it, so it's far from perfect, Hmmm. I'll have to actually trial that from booting a Leopard disk. There's no reason why it shouldn't work, unless the Leopard DVD doesn't have SMB protocols running, or doesn't give a UI to mount a remote drive. > but it's certainly better than what I >had before, ie nothing. I had backups already using Deja Vu, but this is neater and has worked out more reliable. Cheers - Jaimie SignatureThe physics and scientific approach of Armageddon was criticized for its poor adherence to the laws of physics. This has led NASA to show the film as part of its management training program. Prospective managers are asked to find as many inaccuracies in the movie as they can. > >I'd probably have a hard time restoring my entire system > >from it, so it's far from perfect, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > doesn't have SMB protocols running, or doesn't give a UI to mount a > remote drive. I'm not sure how you'd get it to show unsupported drives from the boot DVD. Jim Signature"Well, well. We've come a long way from the Prime Minister's exploding cake." - Adam West, Batman. Find me at http://www.UrsaMinorBeta.co.uk >> >I'd probably have a hard time restoring my entire system >> >from it, so it's far from perfect, [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >I'm not sure how you'd get it to show unsupported drives from the boot >DVD. Let's have a look... boot off the Leopard disk, and hunt around. Okay - connect to network goes fine. No Finder to mount from. No similar options in Disk Utility. 'mount_smbfs //10.0.0.3/tm /Volumes/tm' errors with "failed to load the smb library: unknown error: 1102". No google hits for that. Not at all promising! So lets pop into Utilities/Restore from backup anyway... "Select a Backup Source" screen offers a greyed out "connect to remote disk" button, but mine never lights up. I wonder if that's mediated by Bonjour, or given the SMB trouble perhaps AFP only? Complete failure. Bum. Cheers - Jaimie SignatureThere he saw Merry's feet still sticking out - the rest had already been drawn further inside. Tom put his mouth to the crack and began singing into it in a low voice. They could not catch the words, but evidently Merry was aroused. -- J R R Tolkien > So lets pop into Utilities/Restore from backup anyway... "Select a > Backup Source" screen offers a greyed out "connect to remote disk" > button, but mine never lights up. I wonder if that's mediated by > Bonjour, or given the SMB trouble perhaps AFP only? The Remote Disk's the thing Apple introduced for the Air (but is now for all in 10.5.2), isn't it? I wonder if you can set up a remote disk "server" somewhere that exports your TM data as a disk? How does Remote Disk work anyway? Cheers, Chris >> So lets pop into Utilities/Restore from backup anyway... "Select a >> Backup Source" screen offers a greyed out "connect to remote disk" [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >How does Remote Disk work anyway? Bonjour, afaict. Host advertises the drive, client spots it, [optional authorisation step,] it appears in the client Finder window. Cheers - Jaimie SignatureIn most timelines, the many-worlds hypothesis is held to be obviously false >> How does Remote Disk work anyway? > > Bonjour, afaict. Host advertises the drive, client spots it, [optional > authorisation step,] it appears in the client Finder window. I'm sure Bonjour *is* used, but isn't it just the way the client finds the server, and that some other protocol takes on the heavy lifting once that's happened? Cheers, Chris >>> How does Remote Disk work anyway? >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >the server, and that some other protocol takes on the heavy lifting >once that's happened? It's AFP after that, at least on running machines. Not sure what a netbooted Air uses, and I cba to break out a sniffer and find out. Cheers - Jaimie SignatureSufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. > I was thinking only a few moments ago that it must be a few days now > since I've backed up, and I really must fire up the Time Machine disk [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > 10 days, you should ought to back up, y'know? Nice to know the > application designers understand human frailty. yup it's good also after 20 days, very possibly 30 as well. roger Signaturewww.rogermerriman.com |
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