Hello, I am having some time machine issues. I am running snow leopard on my intel MacBook from 2008 (I think). I set up AFP and netatalk on my ubuntu 10.10 Linux server and got my sparsebundle working but the backups become corrupt. I read on several sources that using time machine with anything other than a Mac or a time capsule will result in corrupted backups, usually when you try to restore... which is what was happening for me. I also tried using samba on my Linux box for time machine with the same result.
So here is what I would like to try, I just want to know if anyone can see anything wrong with this plan. I would like to set up an emac with 1.2 ghz processor, 512 mb of ram, 40gb HD running leopard as my time machine backup server. I would like to plug in 4 terabytes and use 2 terabytes for my Mac and 2 terabytes for my wife's Mac. But I am not sure if an emac will be able to handle this size of hard drives ( i will probably use 2 x 2tb USB drives is what I will use). Also I am wondering if Lion will talk to an emac as a time machine backup server. I want my time machine backups done cable-free, automatically in the background.
To be clear though, time machine via USB works perfectly for me, but my 500gb portable drive was filled in 8 or 9 months only backing up once every week or two.
So here is what I would like to try, I just want to know if anyone can see anything wrong with this plan. I would like to set up an emac with 1.2 ghz processor, 512 mb of ram, 40gb HD running leopard as my time machine backup server. I would like to plug in 4 terabytes and use 2 terabytes for my Mac and 2 terabytes for my wife's Mac. But I am not sure if an emac will be able to handle this size of hard drives ( i will probably use 2 x 2tb USB drives is what I will use). Also I am wondering if Lion will talk to an emac as a time machine backup server. I want my time machine backups done cable-free, automatically in the background.
To be clear though, time machine via USB works perfectly for me, but my 500gb portable drive was filled in 8 or 9 months only backing up once every week or two.