Backup Mac to Windows shared NTFS drive.

Hey. I'd like to backup my Mac's data (running Mavericks) with Time Machine to a Windows shared NTFS drive on my network. I'm fairly sure this is possible with some type of network drive. Anyone know how to make this work?

No, you cannot use Time Machine to back up to an NTFS formatted drive because OS X can only read NTFS drives, they cannot write to them.  If you still wanted to use the NTFS drive, you could create a partition on it that is in HFS+ format(a.k.a. Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) and have Time Machine back up to the partition.

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