On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 22:12 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 02/12/2010 05:56 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > One of the comments to the LWN article also mentions the case of Apple > > allowing these links for the sake of their Time Machine backup system (I > > think it's restricted to that special case so it doesn't run the risk of > > a general-purpose feature). Presumably that's the main reason TM doesn't > > work with non-Apple partitions, despite several NAS manufacturers > > advertising that it does. I just bought an Iomega NAS partly on the > > strength of this and it definitely doesn't work. > > I believe that OS X is supposed to create a .dmg (more or less) file for > Time Machine when used with non-local disks. Even when using Apple's > Time Capsule, that's what it will do. OS X can then mount the dmg file > locally and do whatever it wants, independent of the capabilities of the > NAS device. OT: It's called a "sparse bundle" apparently, but even when I create one by hand it still doesn't work. The Iomega support forums are useless, likewise the documentation. The irony is that this beastie is almost certainly running a version of Linux, but you can't SSH into it to see what's going on. For now I'm just using it via NFS and rsync. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
