Time Machine on a Samba or NFS server
Want to back up my MacBook Air to the NAS, which is running NFS and Samba. The existing guides I found weren’t complete. I ham-fisted my way to a solution that seems to be working. This is on High Sierra, the most recent operating system this old laptop will officially run. (Since verified to also work as far back as Lion.) I skipped using the graphical Disk Utility to setup the sparsebundle, and created it from the command line (in this case, 300GB to back up a 240GB internal SSD): $ sudo hdiutil create -size 300g -type SPARSEBUNDLE \ -nospotlight -volname " MBA2012TM " -fs "Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+" \ -verbose /Volumes/ nas / Time\ Machine / MacBook-Air-2012_TM .sparsebundle Then I mounted the disk image: $ open /Volumes/ nas / Time\ Machine / MacBook-Air-2012_TM .sparsebundle Then I tagged it as a Time Machine eligible drive: $ sudo tmutil setdestination -a /Volumes/ MBA2012TM / # Under 10.7, omit the '-a' And then went into the Time Machine cont