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Can you use an old Mac as a Time Machine drive?
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Sorry if this is an obvious question, but can you use another Mac's HD to backup to with Time Machine? I'm getting a new laptop but could I use my old one, which has AirPort and an 80GB HD, as a place for easy TM backup? Or will I have to do this 'manually'?
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I think it could work, but you would need to partition the HD.
Partition one would include the OS, partition two would be for TM.
The TM volume can't contain other stuff, AFAIK.
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i never thought to try that. It's brilliant if it works.
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Originally Posted by Sourbook 
i never thought to try that. It's brilliant if it works.
TM should work with any networked drive. It has to be "Extended - Journaled" format though.
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I'm using a dual 500 G4 as a server/time machine drive. It has a FW800 card with an external 200GB HD that it and 2 other computer backup to via time machine. Has been working fine since January.
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hey dynsight or any body else your office 2008 works ok.if it is what version are you running on your system. is it 10.4.9 or earlier. if it is not what version are you running
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Originally Posted by travelinkid1
hey dynsight or any body else your office 2008 works ok.if it is what version are you running on your system. is it 10.4.9 or earlier. if it is not what version are you running
Wrong thread ?
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It's a hack unless the old Mac is running Leopard Server, but it can be done.
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Originally Posted by mduell
It's a hack unless the old Mac is running Leopard Server, but it can be done.
Yeah, seems like it. Not really a big hack, just a small terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
How to enable Time Machine on unsupported volumes - Engadget
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If you booted the machine into target disk mode you should be able to just plug it in. I'm pretty sure the TM volume can contain other stuff.
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Originally Posted by mduell
It's a hack unless the old Mac is running Leopard Server, but it can be done.
I'm 99% sure the old Mac just needs to be running Leopard (client), not Leopard Server.
Of course, if it doesn't need to be bootable, the OP'd get a few gigs back by wiping the drive and using Target mode. Although, some Macs run their fans super loud in target mode.
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It even works on Tiger, although it requires a few workarounds.
The problem is that there's a bug (?) in 10.5.2 that prevents TM from creating a fresh sparsebundle on unsupported volumes.
I managed to get around this by manually creating the <hostname>_<MAC-addr>.sparsebundle with diskutil and then connecting the HD with this file to the 10.4.11 machine.
Turns out my impulse-bought Apple TV actually does have a use thanks to this and a 1 TB RAID-1 USB disk connected to it. 
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Originally Posted by moep
It even works on Tiger, although it requires a few workarounds.
The problem is that there's a bug (?) in 10.5.2 that prevents TM from creating a fresh sparsebundle on unsupported volumes.
I managed to get around this by manually creating the <hostname>_<MAC-addr>.sparsebundle with diskutil and then connecting the HD with this file to the 10.4.11 machine.
Turns out my impulse-bought Apple TV actually does have a use thanks to this and a 1 TB RAID-1 USB disk connected to it.
Wait, you have that TM drive connected to Apple TV, and can use it with TM ?
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Originally Posted by turtle777
Wait, you have that TM drive connected to Apple TV, and can use it with TM ?
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Yeah, but it isn't running the original Apple-TV OS with backrow and whatnot.
I'm just using it as a low-power headless file/web/database server with a regular 10.4.11 installation on it. No more multimedia functions.
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Ahh, I see. So it's a hack, nonetheless.
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It is not a hack! As long as both machines are running Leopard, it is supported.
Apple - Mac OS X Leopard - Features - Time Machine
Time Machine can also back up to another Mac running Leopard with Personal File Sharing, Leopard Server, or Xsan storage devices.
That said, I'm having difficulty with reliability of backing up a MBP with a MP.
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Originally Posted by schalliol
It is not a hack! As long as both machines are running Leopard, it is supported.
Yes, it is.
I was responding to moep.
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Originally Posted by turtle777
Yes, it is.
I was responding to moep.
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In that case, I was responding to mduell. The point is that it's supported Leopard to Leopard. It sounds like moep was just talking about a workaround for a bug.
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Wish I had thought of this.
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Originally Posted by schalliol
In that case, I was responding to mduell. The point is that it's supported Leopard to Leopard. It sounds like moep was just talking about a workaround for a bug.
No, moep was talking about using Apple TV as a headless Mac. That's a hack, not a bug fix.
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My friend just easily set up his Linux server as a TM backup and it works great so there must be ways to do it on a mac.
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