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Ruslan Banochkin2016-06-30 14:58:47
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Ruslan Banochkin, 2016-06-30 14:58:47

How to make a server for Time Machine backups with Windows on board?

At home, in the corner, there is a system unit with Windows on board, which is turned on all day and keeps the necessary software running.
There is a terabyte external hard drive on the table at home. Sometimes I connect it and make backups of my macbook using TimeMachine.
I thought that it would be much easier if I could connect this hard drive to a server with Windows and have my macbook backup via wifi when I connect to my home network. I googled the manuals - there are only options with backup through samba, not the best option.)
Maybe there are others, better ones? I even tried using VMware on the server to virtually run OS X along with the Server application, just to connect the same hard drive from the table and make backups to it, but it's just a crutch when a virtual machine is running for backups.)

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Mikhail Bazarov, 2017-03-07
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In Disk Utility on a Mac, create a "Growing Disk Image Package". Any volume, the main thing is that it would be a little more than the volume of the disk on the poppy.
On Windows, you share a drive or directory on the network. You connect to it from macOS and drop this "disk image package" into it.
Double click on the package in the connected, shared folder. What would he mount.
In the macOS terminal, you execute the command:
sudo tmutil setdestination /Volumes/NAME_WHICH_GIVED_TO THE IMAGE It turned out to be a rogue
Time Capsule. Minus one - you will have to constantly connect to this image if the laptop constantly leaves the local network.

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