How to backup network drive

Hi, I've got a time capsule on my network, and a network drive on the same network. How can I back up the network drive with time machine? Can that not be done?

Any one know of any software that allows me to backup my network external to another network external?
I am running an airport extreme with a usb hub. The printer and two external drives are hooked up to the hub. My 1TB drive is used as the TM or TC drive. I would like TC to back up the Maxtor as well but it doesn't show up on the list of drives to backup. So I am looking for a piece of software or even an automator that backs up my Maxtor (networked) to my 1TB TM drive (networked). I have started to play with CCC but I'm not having much luck.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ben

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hello. i have a storage connected to my network. when i configure the backup location i cant see the network drives that are connected to the server that the agent is installed on. i only see the local drives. how can i backup a directory that
is located on the network drive ?
adrian

Hi,
Only direct attached block level disks can be backed up. If the network storage supports iscsi, you can attach it to the Windows server and then you can back it up.
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Can I exclude a backup network drive from iTunes?

I have just installed iTunes on my PC after using WMP and WinAmp for many years.
I have a sizeable collection of MP3's on my computer AND on a network back-up drive. When I installed iTunes, not only did it access my internal drives (c: & d:) but it also imported into the library my Back-Up drive (k:).
I want to EXCLUDE the backup/network drive from the iTunes library, but do want to keep my hubby's HD in the network loop for music.
I can not figure out how to do this. Please Help me remove all the files that are on my back-up drive from the iTunes library. Not all of my MP3z as duplicates in the library at the moment because hubby's computer is DOWN at the moment but I still never want iTunes to access our mp3 back-up drive [K:].

I wrote a program to remove tracks from iTunes based on the file path (among other things). You can use it to remove all tracks from the K drive very easily. Go here:
http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/itunesscripts/index.html
and click the download button. Extract the ZIP (teridonsitunesscripts.zip) somewhere, and run "teridonsitunesscripts.exe".
In the window that appears, select "itunesremove_bylocation" and click "Run Selected Script".
A new cmd prompt window will appear, asking you for a pattern to search for. Enter <pre>^K:</pre> (thats a caret (shift-6)) and hit enter. You'll then get a listing all your playlists. Select the Library playlist by typing "1" and hit enter. The program will automatically remove all tracks from iTunes that are on the K: drive.
The files will not be removed from the K: drive itself unless you actually have K: set up as your Library location. It certainly sounds like you do not. However, if you want to double check, from the Edit menu select Preferences. On the Advanced tab, under the General tab, check the "iTunes Music folder location". As long as it isn't K: you don't have to worry.
The forum TOS requires me to say: "I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link" because I have a paypal donation link on my webpage. The program is free (donation totally optional).
HTH,
Rob

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i don't trust MA at all. known to create a lot of problems.
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How to mount network drive on boot up

I'd like to mount a network drive on my OS X v10.6 system during the *boot sequence* so that the drive is available to Time Machine to write its backups there. I can mount the drive manually and know how to add it to an user account's loginn items so that it gets mounted when that user logs in. But I want it always mounted regardless of which user is logged in or even if no user is logged in. That way TM can run whenever it needs to.
So how can I mount the network drive during boot up?
The network drive is on a machine running OS X v10.5.
This related thread was my original question in the Time Machine forum: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2807393&tstart=0
Message was edited by: NikD

not sure it will work for you but you could try this:
if you are comfortable with AppleScript, you could edit this script to suit your situation:
try
mount volume "afp://<devicename>.local/<volumename>" as user name "<accountname>" with password "<accountpassword>"
end try
this script just places the drive's icon on the desktop.
save it as an application and add that to the account's login items.
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use DLPI messages,
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Hi
I'm trying to implement some Macs in a large network.
We work against file servers, storing all the files we use on the servers.
There are multiple servers with multiple shared folders in each.
On the windows work stations, we click "Map network drive", Choose the server and folder and check "Re-connect on startup".
How can I do this in OSX.
Here is what I need:
*On log on the mac should mount each network share, so that it is accessible in finder like any other drive.
*It needs to have the same drive-letter each time, as applications may need to reference the files.
*It needs to log on using the current user's username and password (the passwords may change, so no putting them in scripts)
*Should not pop up one finder window pr. drive when you log on (some "solutions" do this)
Our servers can act as both smb and windows server.
I'm sure apple has a great solution for this, and it is probably easy, it's just me comming from windows and could not find it.
Hope my question was clear and that somebody can help.

That should work. You could try deleting the passwords in Keychain associated with it and try it again.
Another route: Create Applescript:
Select the network drive and get info on it. Copy the server address. Open up Applescript Editor in the Utilities folder and create a new script. Type in mount volume, add space, "paste server address within quotations", and save as application to your documents. Run it from within applescript editor to verify it works. When it asks for a passwork, save it in Keychain.
Under system preferences/accounts/login items, click the + sign to add and select the saved application.

How to: automount network drive at start up?

so i put my netwrok drive to login item under user account control and it automaticelly mount the drive on boot up but it really annoy me when the finder window popping up and showing the drive is mounted everytime it statrt up eventhough I tried selecting the checkbox to "hide".
OS X 10.8.3
is there a way to automount a network drive without popping up in the finder at start up?

Unless the mount is needed before a user logs in, it may mount on demand, depending on what process demands it first. If that doesn't work for you, see below.
Autofs: Automatically Mounting Network File Shares in Mac OS X

TM tries to backup network drives when I connect to them

I noticed TM started a backup of a couple shared drives on my iMac. TM is running on my MacBook and I don't want it to back up drives I connect to - either over the network or firewire/USB. I can't figure out how to stop this. I connect to quite a few shared drives in my network and this is a problem for me. All I want to back up is my internal drive.

In the timemachine preferences click on the options button, click the plus sign and you can add the volumes, folders or files you dont want timemachine to backup.

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How to Clone Using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the backup or destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (journaled, if available) and click on the Erase button. This step can be skipped if the destination has already been freshly erased.
4. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
5. Select the backup or destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
6. Select the startup or source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
8. Select the destination drive on the Desktop and press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. At the bottom in the Ownership and Permissions section be sure the box labeled "Ignore Permissions on this Volume" is unchecked. Verify the settings for Ownership and Permissions as follows: Owner=system with read/write; Group=admin with read/write; Other with read-only. If they are not correct then reset them.
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How to backup NAS Drive to Time Machine

My iMac, early 2009 model has a 1TB HDD which is now full with a few GB to spare, but not enough for any kind of video edited etc.
So, I purchased a NAS drive to use as an external storage device, so I can move and free up disk space on the iMac..... An other reason why I got a NAS drive instead of a regular external drive was because the WD My Cloud let's me create my own Cloud storage and also stream audio, image and video files directly to my TV, eliminating the need for an Apple TV or to keep my iMac/iTunes turned on.
Anyways, my issue is, I need Time Machine to backup my NAS drive and I don't know how to do this. Because once, I delete the files off my iMac, TM will not be making any future backups of the files I've moved.
There has to be a solution, any script/software? Any commands I can enter into Terminal for TM to see and backup my NAS?
ONLY IF, it was easy as upgrading the iMac ram, to upgrade the Hard Drive, I would have upgraded the internal HDD instead.
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Thanks in advance.

My question now is, is it worth keeping the NAS My Cloud drive and backing up My Book to the NAS My Cloud drive instead of to Time Capsule ?
Or shall I just stick to backing up to TC ?
This is more an opinion question.. IMHO the WD MyCloud will not be as reliable as the TC.
Apple build stuff with lots of tricky bits and one of those tricky bits is when you try to use non-apple products they simply have more issues.. Apple do not support TM to a WD mycloud.. they support it to a TC.
If you want reliable backups.. use CCC to the MyCloud or the TC.. that is not a problem.
Or use Time Machine to the Time Capsule.
If I needed to recover a file, I would use the TM backup.
If I lost a disk, I would use the CCC backup to restore it.
They are different.. they have different strengths and for reliability with Mavericks in particular.. I would rate CCC as top of the class and TM as the dunce in the corner.
So IMHO for the $40 cost of CCC I would do both. It is not hard.. nor expensive.. and if your data is at all valuable to you.. the extra cost is fairly small. You already have all the hardware.

How to access network drive in mac app ?

Hi All,
How to get the access to the file system of a networkdrive in mac app ? Let the shared path is
\\192.168.2.57\JPEG .
What are the apis use to connect to a networkdrive ?
I am using Lion OS and the server is a Windows Server running with smb services.
Please guide me.
<Email Edited by Host>

Thanks for your quick response.
I am using NSTask to execute the script
_localMountPath = @"/Users/pacs/Documents/Temp";
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    [task setLaunchPath:@"/sbin/mount_smbfs"];
str = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"//Demo;Administrator:Password@[email protected]/0BF045A8"];
[task setArguments:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:str,_localMountPath, nil]];
    NSPipe *outputPipe = [NSPipe pipe];
    [task setStandardError:outputPipe];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(mountCompleted:) name:NSFileHandleReadToEndOfFileCompletionNotification object:[outputPipe fileHandleForReading]];
    [[outputPipe fileHandleForReading] readToEndOfFileInBackgroundAndNotify];
[task launch];
The problem here is password is having @ symbol inbetween .
The format is @"//Domain;User:Password@servershaedpath"
So the compiler is taking the path as "@[email protected]/0BF045A8" and not able to connect.
How to solve the problem of Passwordhaving "@" symbol inbetween.
Thanks

Does TM backup FROM network drives ?

Hello,
TM seems to not backup mounted drives by default.
Is there any tip to make TM backups networking drives?
Thank you,
joe

Joan Hérisson wrote:
thank you V.K. for your very quick reply.
I don't know how I will back up my network drives...
joe
there are many other good backup tools besides Time machine. some will back up remote drives. I think CCCloner will for example. also check retrospect and Synchronize Pro X and Chronosync.
see this post by kappy for options
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7495315#7495315
Message was edited by: V.K.

How to take Auto backup from External Network Drive to Mac pro internal Dri

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Please could anyone help me on this.....
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How do I backup my iPad and iPhone to a networked drive?

Since it's clear now that my Win 7 machine will never again run iTunes properly (a whole other story... sigh) I'm reduced to using my MBA for all my iTunes needs. My music collection is huge, of course (whose isn't?) but that's no problem because it exists on a networked drive and my MBA has no issues playing from it.
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I have an iMac that I installed a 128GB SSD in and that created storage issues in my mind too. What I've done is put a 1GB drive on my Airport Extreme and moved all my iTunes Media there. Just yesterday I updated and backed up my iPhone for the first time since I set up the system and to my relief it didn't add to my SSD.
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