Re: Re: Apple Announce Raft of Updates and New Products at MacWorld

[Martin Greenwood <greengreengreen@xxxxxxx>]

You're right. I can choose all disks on my G5 server. (afp) But not
disks on a PC (smb)

Martin


On 18 Jan 2008, at 12:01, Jim Noble <yahoo-groups@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Martin Greenwood wrote:
>> Not correct, it will back to any shared volume. All 5 of our Mac's
>> backup to single firewire drive using Time Machine.
>>
>
> Ah, interesting. Is it only AFP shared volumes though? I tried it
> with a
> SMB/CIFS share on my linux server and that didn't work...
>
>> Make sure the volume is mounted and then go to Change Disk in Time
>> Machine in System Preferences.
>> What it doesn't do is backup to a usb drive connected to an
Airport
>> base station.
>>
>
> Presumably because the airport disk sharing is via SMB/CIFS?
>
> Fingers crossed they'll turn it on for all types of network shared
> volumes...
>
> Jim
>
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