Using Time Machine to create backups on network volumes
Monday, January 4th, 2010If you ever wondered how to do a Time Machine backup to some NFS, AFS or SMB volume, here is the solution:
In the terminal (Terminal.app) enable Time Machine to use unsupported volumes:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
Now you can use any mounted device! This is especially nice if you are working in a company or in a research group where you often already have some remote storage available.