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<blockquote data-quote="nargnog" data-source="post: 1260859" data-attributes="member: 206540"><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nargnog, post: 1260859, member: 206540"] 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. [/QUOTE]
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