Comments on: Windows Home Server & Time Machine Fall Apart http://www.christopherprice.net/windows-home-server-time-machine-fall-apart-63.html Wireless consumer advocate Christopher Price tackles the rest of tech. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:57:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Christopher Price http://www.christopherprice.net/windows-home-server-time-machine-fall-apart-63.html/comment-page-1#comment-5328 Christopher Price Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:07:39 +0000 http://www.christopherprice.net/2007/10/26/windows-home-server-time-machine-fall-apart/#comment-5328 Maximiliam, the problems occur when you try to restore. With a WHS box, the risk is minimal/non-existent. But, with AirPort Extreme, there is a high risk of write buffers being overrun. AP Extreme, unlike Time Capsule, does not have the technology to go back and re-request packets. I've run into this bug myself, so I can confirm Apple's technical rational. Problem is, even if they couldn't patch the firmware (debatable), they should have made the right business decision and offered people a swap-out program. Instead, they illegally brushed their warranty obligations under the rug. Still, your data protections is more important than that. Don't backup to an AirPort Extreme. It's just not worth it when you want to do a restore... only to find your files are actually corrupted. Maximiliam, the problems occur when you try to restore. With a WHS box, the risk is minimal/non-existent. But, with AirPort Extreme, there is a high risk of write buffers being overrun. AP Extreme, unlike Time Capsule, does not have the technology to go back and re-request packets.

I’ve run into this bug myself, so I can confirm Apple’s technical rational. Problem is, even if they couldn’t patch the firmware (debatable), they should have made the right business decision and offered people a swap-out program. Instead, they illegally brushed their warranty obligations under the rug.

Still, your data protections is more important than that. Don’t backup to an AirPort Extreme. It’s just not worth it when you want to do a restore… only to find your files are actually corrupted.

]]> By: Maximiliam http://www.christopherprice.net/windows-home-server-time-machine-fall-apart-63.html/comment-page-1#comment-5325 Maximiliam Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:16:49 +0000 http://www.christopherprice.net/2007/10/26/windows-home-server-time-machine-fall-apart/#comment-5325 I did the following: "defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1" Type the above in Terminal. That will enable network volumes in time machine. It’s what iTimeMachine did. I'm now using my Airport Extreme with a USB hdd for TimeMachine and it is working. I used TimeMachine when I upgraded the hdd in my MacBook. I'm also testing to use my WHS as backup, so far no problems. BR//Max I did the following:

“defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1″
Type the above in Terminal. That will enable network volumes in time machine. It’s what iTimeMachine did.

I’m now using my Airport Extreme with a USB hdd for TimeMachine and it is working. I used TimeMachine when I upgraded the hdd in my MacBook.

I’m also testing to use my WHS as backup, so far no problems.

BR//Max

]]> By: Christopher Price http://www.christopherprice.net/windows-home-server-time-machine-fall-apart-63.html/comment-page-1#comment-776 Christopher Price Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:25:41 +0000 http://www.christopherprice.net/2007/10/26/windows-home-server-time-machine-fall-apart/#comment-776 iTimeMachine simply tells Time Machine on your Mac to ignore Apple's whitelist of approved Time Machine storage devices... it does not make those unsupported devices work any better. This has to be the number one misconception with iTimeMachine, as everyone thinks it's a godsend. It's not, it's just a program that makes a one-line edit to a settings file, and tells Time Machine to back up to any mounted drive it can. Just because Time Machine then says it's backing up properly to WHS, doesn't mean it is. And, most of the time, Time Machine will even balk errors out telling you that it isn't working. iTimeMachine simply tells Time Machine on your Mac to ignore Apple’s whitelist of approved Time Machine storage devices… it does not make those unsupported devices work any better.

This has to be the number one misconception with iTimeMachine, as everyone thinks it’s a godsend. It’s not, it’s just a program that makes a one-line edit to a settings file, and tells Time Machine to back up to any mounted drive it can.

Just because Time Machine then says it’s backing up properly to WHS, doesn’t mean it is. And, most of the time, Time Machine will even balk errors out telling you that it isn’t working.

]]> By: Jon http://www.christopherprice.net/windows-home-server-time-machine-fall-apart-63.html/comment-page-1#comment-771 Jon Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:27:42 +0000 http://www.christopherprice.net/2007/10/26/windows-home-server-time-machine-fall-apart/#comment-771 iTimeMachine... check it out. It works great with any version of Windows, including Home Server. iTimeMachine… check it out. It works great with any version of Windows, including Home Server.

]]> By: Mac Leopard and WHS do NOT Play Nicely « MS Windows Home Server http://www.christopherprice.net/windows-home-server-time-machine-fall-apart-63.html/comment-page-1#comment-153 Mac Leopard and WHS do NOT Play Nicely « MS Windows Home Server Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:44:35 +0000 http://www.christopherprice.net/2007/10/26/windows-home-server-time-machine-fall-apart/#comment-153 [...] was said you cannot use your Windows Home Server shared storage as a backup target for Time Machine.Cristopher Price explains [...] [...] was said you cannot use your Windows Home Server shared storage as a backup target for Time Machine.Cristopher Price explains [...]

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