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    Hello members
    On my MBP (os x) I have fusion with xp as guest, which is part of my working os. Now I am thinking of buying whs and load onto a redundant machine(with new Mobo and HDD) . On this whs I would like to backup the os x , 1 guest xp(on MBP),and another Laptop(xp of my partners company) and some space for audio files.
    Would someone be able to tell me how I could do that? I just like to be somewhat sure about this before I get the WHS otherwise I just buy a NAS setup.
    Thanks

    Friday, September 12, 2008 9:08 AM

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    Hi Ken, thanks!
    That would mean that this particular SMB share would have to be a few 100's of GB, is that possible? Would it be advisable to have this WHS in a raid setup? Or would it be better to have two drives, one obviously the WHS and another for the time machine(or other os x compatible), without raid, and is that possible?
    All those questions arise because the intention of rejuvenating and "old" machine to be fit for the WHS.
    • Marked as answer by notechyet Friday, September 12, 2008 6:39 PM
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    There's no problem with having terabytes of data in a single share. As for RAID, well, "RAID is not a supported technology." Microsoft doesn't recommend the use of RAID; it complicates server installation (and reinstallation, should you be so unlucky as to need to do so) greatly, and it's far less flexible than the technology WHS uses to provide network storage.

    I would think twice about rejuvenating an old machine. There are some components in computers that do wear out with time (electrolytic capacitors, fans and hard drives for example).

    You may want to look around the Windows Home Server site. In particular check out the documentation you'll find linked through Help. 

    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    • Marked as answer by notechyet Friday, September 12, 2008 6:39 PM
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    Windows Home Server will only back up drives formatted with the NTFS file system, so for the Mac you will have to use an alternate method. That could be the built in backup tool (Time Machine) that's been configured to back up to one of the SMB shares on your server.
    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Friday, September 12, 2008 12:31 PM
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    Hi Ken, thanks!
    That would mean that this particular SMB share would have to be a few 100's of GB, is that possible? Would it be advisable to have this WHS in a raid setup? Or would it be better to have two drives, one obviously the WHS and another for the time machine(or other os x compatible), without raid, and is that possible?
    All those questions arise because the intention of rejuvenating and "old" machine to be fit for the WHS.
    • Marked as answer by notechyet Friday, September 12, 2008 6:39 PM
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    There's no problem with having terabytes of data in a single share. As for RAID, well, "RAID is not a supported technology." Microsoft doesn't recommend the use of RAID; it complicates server installation (and reinstallation, should you be so unlucky as to need to do so) greatly, and it's far less flexible than the technology WHS uses to provide network storage.

    I would think twice about rejuvenating an old machine. There are some components in computers that do wear out with time (electrolytic capacitors, fans and hard drives for example).

    You may want to look around the Windows Home Server site. In particular check out the documentation you'll find linked through Help. 

    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    • Marked as answer by notechyet Friday, September 12, 2008 6:39 PM
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    Hi Ken, thanks for your good advice!
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    OS X Leopard ONLY Supports the use of time machine as follows:

    1.   Locally Attached Disk (Like a USB Drive).
    2.   Over Wifi to an Airport Extreme Router that has a USB Drive Connected.
    3.   Over Wifi to Time Capsule.

    I have enabled the following which allows me to see the Shares on my WHS box from my macbook pro in Time Machine.

    WARNING:  This is NOT supported by Apple, so use at your own Risk.

    Run this from terminal and load up time machine to select your drive! You don't need to hook the drive up to the Mac first, you dont have to go chowning files and all that nonsense.

    Code:
    defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
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    fladtheimpaler
    thanks for your reply.
    I will try your suggestion as soon as my WHS is setup. Could I (or someone else may have one)then make a script so It would do that automatically?
    If Time Machine is so restrictive then SuperDuper regular backups to the SMB share might be another option? Is that possible?
    • Edited by notechyet Saturday, September 13, 2008 11:46 PM
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    We made a quick little Automator application that removes the Time Machine restrictions on what kind of disk you can back up to.  We found the tip  here.

    We are now happily backing up or Leopard machines  to the SMB Share on or DLink DNS-323.

    Download the Flux Capacitor here.  It is an automator action so you'll see the unix command that it runs.  After you are done, Voila!  You'll see ALL of your shares in Time machine - even wireless.

    Obviously Apple closed this functionality for a reason so use at your own risk.

    Sunday, September 14, 2008 7:09 PM