I recently bought a MacBook Pro to replace my Dell XP laptop when I left my employer. I've been reading on the web that some people are successfully backing up to SMB NAS, so I decided to give it a try with my WHS box. Here's what I did:
1. Created a new folder, TimeMachine, on WHS, with duplication turned off.
2. Connected to the new share from my Mac, using my WHS user name.
3. Created a sparsebundle on my MBP named the way TimeMachine expects (<MachineName>_<macAddress>.sparsebundle), and copied it to the TimeMachine share.
4. Pointed TimeMachine to the WHS share and let it rip.
All seemed well for about a week, and then I started to get an error that TimeMachine could not mount the backup disk. I tried to verify & repair it with Disk Utility, but that failed. I was getting an error from Disk Utility that a key was out of order in the sparsebundle. So I deleted the contents of the share on WHS and started over. I also disabled VSS on WHS -- I had enabled that earlier in the year via the registry since my HP MSS EX475 had it disabled. I wouldn't think that would make a difference, but who knows?
My full backup is in progress now, but are there any other settings/tweaks I am missing? If this is going to be unreliable, I'll just have to buy an external drive for the MBP, but I really like the idea of wireless backups so I'm not tethered to the external drive.
TIA,
Joe
