![]() ![]() Worth looking into it, as a possible 'solution', since it has numerous other benefits. Plus Server 3 has a ton of other useful functions that can save tremendous monthly bandwidth (if you don't have unlimited internet), such as a repository for Apple Software Updates that your Networked Macs will always pull from first, making large updates as fast as your LAN, and same for iOS apps and devices, and a dozen other useful features. I had a MacBook from 2008 that I wasn't using much anymore, installed Mavericks, then Server 3 from the App store for a steal of a cost, and plugged in a USB 2 2TB drive to it, set-up permissions and configuration for TM network use, and BLAM - it's visible in TM system preference on every Mac. I recently switched over to TM over Mac OS X Mavericks Server (OS X Server 3). Have you double-checked the Sharing control panel to make sure a checkmark or drag-and-dropped drive aren't absent, etc. Seems like it's possible, and TM sees the drive.Īre both your MB Air and iMac on the exact same OS version? Could be some version mismatch otherwise. I just reproduced this, as I normally back up to separate drives for each Mac, as I don't want to saturate my LAN's A/N wifi with data xfers. I'll post as soon as I get a chance to test that.Īlright, i'm assuming you're using AFP in Sharing control panel, to share your TM drive on the iMac, and then going to 'GO: Connect to Server: Browse button, selecting the iMac's shared TM drive, entering correct password, double-clicking the drive so it shows up on the MB Air desktop, going to TM system preference, and selecting it there for 'Use Disk'? (i.e.:, you're not doing this via Mac OS X Mavericks Server). If it does, the problem should be on the Air. I have another MacBook that I don't backup - I'll check and see if it recognizes the TM volume. Somehow, the drive seems to be excluded from the Air's TM list - I may be wrong of course. I also restarted the iMac - and made sure AFP is selected - as it had been. I can't get it to show up in TM prefs - but, it does show up in finder. So, I simply thought I would tell TM prefs (on the Air) to not use it - and it did say "Do Not Use" as an option - and then I would choose it again. Of course it is - and it had been backing up. The issue is on my My MacBook Air, which had been backing up, ran into an issue for no reason - said the TM volume (on the networked iMac) was not an AFP drive. I'm able to do TM backups to this TM volume from the iMac to which it is attached. Actually, the TM backup volume is attached to a new iMac with 10.9.1.
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