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How to Use an SMB Share in Ubuntu for TimeMachine on Mountain Lion 10.8.x OS X
I was trying to get TM to work via SMB on 10.8 and although I found articles on how to implement in Lion and Snow Leopard, I found that they did not work in ML as advertised. By leveraging multible sites I was able to get it to work successfully. The first step was to create an SMB server in Ubuntu server. I am running Ubuntu server version 12.04 on an Atom CPU 2 Cores, 4GB.
SMB Setup on Ubuntu
Refer to: Samba Server
Enable SMB Share for Time Machine
Open the Terminal.app and enter the following command:
sudo defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
Mount the sparse bundle:
hdiutil attach -verbose /path/to/sparsebundle
Add the sparsebundle as the Time Machine destination:
sudo tmutil setdestination /Volumes/mounted_sprase_bundle
Now bring up Time Machine and you will see the disk as the default destination. In past versions you would have seen the disk and add it in the GUI but in ML it will not see it. You are able to add it via CLI and so far I have not seen any issues.
References:
It’s Just Bytes... 
Hi mate! Could you write a tutorial since the beginning? thanks!!
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Thanks, that works fine!Just one issue: after stand-by the backup mount and network mount are gone and i need to remount it manually.Any idea?
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Great article, this worked perfectly! Enrico, there is a way to make it auto mount, but I will have to google it to see.
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Incombatible file system after last command in terminal. :(Whats this?
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As far as auto mounting normally you can use /etc/fstab and after it awakes diskarbitrationd will look at this. It has been depreciated after leopard I think but as far as I know is is still viable. I am not sure about mountain lion but you can try adding it and see if it works. Otherwise write a script to mount it.
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Flocksi as far as the filessytem it sounds like you did not do the first step if you created an CIFS share then you would have had to have a filesystem for that share. I would check that.
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Thank you!!!!
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\”Incompatible file system type: smbfs (error 45)\” : When you mount the sparcebundle, it will show directly under /Volume/. Use that, not the original smb path. sudo tmutil setdestination /Volumes/mounted_sprase_bundle
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Open Terminal and enter the following command :sudo tmutil setdestination /Volumes/ [hit the tab key]It will list your sparsebundles (two names for the same bundle, you chose the wrong one and got error 45)
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Anyone got a procedure for mounting the sparse bundle in the event of a full hd failure and full machine restore?
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Do a clean install, mount sparse bundle and then restore via Migration Assistant. It is really simple.
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True, except that to mount the sparse bundle with that approach you have to go through the clean install first. My belief is that there's a way to get the thing mounted on power-up with no OS installed on the box. Hoping someone has an approach for that…
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This is what I get when I try to use SMB instead of Netatalk AFP shares on Timemachine.sudo tmutil setdestination /Volumes/MacBackup/Volumes/MacBackup: Incompatible file system type: smbfs (error 45)The backup destination could not be set.What's the fix?
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