Time Machine + Network User

Is it possible for a network user to use Time Machine to backup their home folder ?
I really want this feature but last time I tried it seemed not to be possible…?

You could make them all mobile users so they have a copy of the data on they're computers, then share a volume and enable it as a time machine destination, enable quotas on that disk ( cant be the same as where you keep they're homes or time machine will suck up they're quota ), set the the quota on the disk ( sudo edquota user ) and have them all backup there, you could exclude all system files if all you want is they're homes.
Another thing you could do is backup the whole share but you would have to recover files for them.
Hope it helps, if you find a better way do let me know

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After using time machine my users folder cannot be seen, but all information is still intact. Where did it go?

After using time machine my users folder cannot be seen, but all information is still intact. Where did it go?

This is a new feature or bug if you want to call it that in OS X 10.9.3
Until Apple fixes this, here is a temporary work around.
Copy and paste the following command in the Terminal and then hit Enter, followed by your password.
sudo ln -s /Users /Users\ Folder; ln -s /Users/Shared /Users/Shared\ Folder
This will put a link to the Users folder called "Users Folder" on your Hard Drive and a link to the Shared folder called "Shared Folder" inside of the Users folder.

Time MAchine and Users

I just set-up Time Machine using a 1TB External Hard Drive. My question is: I have several Users set-up on my Mac. I have myself as the MAIN user but also my daughters have their own individual log-ons. Will TIme Machine back-up ALL users or just the one user that is logged on? Hope this makes sense?

bingalls wrote:
To follow up on this question....
So when a second user logs into their account and Time Machine starts up. It in fact could be turned off in their account because Account #1 has already backed up all of their files? (except newly created files of course).
No. TM backs-up your system, not individual accounts. Backups are either on or off, for the entire system. Anything that's been changed, anywhere, will be backed-up (except File Vault, and any exclusions).
External disk drive for Time Machine is near it's max so making sure I have only one backup of all is key for me.
Note that TM usually requires roughly 2-3 times the space of what it's backing-up to work well. If you have other data on your TM disk, it's best if you partition the drive so TM has it's own, exclusive space. See items #1 and 3 of the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip* at the top of this forum.
You might want to review these:
Time Machine Tutorial
Time Machine 101
How to back up and restore your files
Time Machine Features
Apple - Support - Mac OSX v10.5 Leopard Time Machine
and perhaps browse the rest of the FAQ Tip.
If you have a problem setting-up or using Time Machine, start with the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip* at the top of this forum. It will show you how to locate the message(s) that describe the problem, then help you fix it.

Time machine network backup really ***** (truly)

Ok I've said it..
Ok I've had enough..
Come on Guy's. Apple really has to take some flack here. No more excuses. You advertised timemachine backup to a network share would work easily. You advertise apple software works without a hitch (unlike MS windows)...but I've had nothing but hastles setting up time machine to backup to a mac server attached usb drive. I've BEEN a windows user before and I tell you this is just like going back to the dark side!
And another thing
No I'm not trying to use an airport extreme mount
No I'm not trying to use a NAS
No I'm not trying to back up a linux or PC volume
I'm being a good little customer. It's all using mac to mac. Yes, it's Leopard to Leopard...
Hastle one:
The drive mount. I've successfully done this for 3 networked macs. It took a while, was working a few days, but the mount is unreliable. If one of the macs goes down, time machine doesn't work anymore. I get the error "backup disc image could not be mounted". Apparently the problem is with the "sparseimage". One solution I've read is to delete the sparseimage then try again. Fine
Hastle two:
I can't work out how to delete the sparseimage! I get an error cannot do - "the item token is in use"
Apple needs to take a cold shower on time machine.
Where is the help on this? Where is the customer apologies? Where are the solutions?
Obviously there was not pre release testing. Wait a minute WE are the pre-release testing!
It is just plain unreliable as a backup solution for macs on a home ethernet network..even when all the gear is actually mac!
I give it a rating of 1 out of 10 on this.
Come on guys lift you game!
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I have had nothing but problems with Time Machine. We are wasting our valuable time with a product that SIMPLY DOES NOT WORK. Apple needs to weigh in here. We are wasting our "TIME" on our "MACHINES" Now I see why Apple calls it TIME MACHINE!

Time Machine, Network Share, Lion

I have set up a network share to be used as the Time Machine backup location. The share has a user/password assigned. I can log in to the share in Finder OK. I have run the terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
But the share does not appear in Select Disk. Any ideas on how I get it to appear so that I can enter user/password?

Come to find out, at least one NAS does work! Synology released a beta of their software the day after Lion was announced that apparently resolved Lion incompatibilities.
In any case, my problem is resolved! I found the solution to use the Users/Login in Preferences to log in to the time machine share. Both my Lion portable machines, a MacBook 2008 and a MacBookAir 2011 happily backed up their individual shares. (Production machines are waiting for 10.7.2.)

Airport and Time Machine new user questions

Background: Switched my business from PC to Mac June 07--and loving it! Upgraded to Leopard over the holidays and bought a 500Mb wireless backup drive. Setup was easy (thanks forum) and I backed up both MacBookPro's with this drive. Buffalo popped last week and Mac bias now runs deep and the local AppleStore had the the 1 TB model in stock.
My connection is: Cable modem (T-W Roadrunner service)-->Time Capsule-->Linksys/Vonage modem. (USB connection from TC to HP 6210 computer). All computers are .n wireless access.
I have had things happen in my environment that I don't understand and can't figure out how to address:
1.) Download/Upload speed according to Speakeasy is 7,000 kbpd down and 700 plus up. Very happy with this and this is an improvement over my old Linksys router.
2.)However my Vonage was set on medium bandwidth and calls are now garbled whereas the old router they were clear. I changed the Vonage bandwidth to high and the calls are OK.
3.) Software updater called for an update download and the forecasted download time was 8 hours!!!! Web browsing seems to work fine and if anything faster.
4.) When I send e-mail about~80% of the time the e-mail fails "on the selected server". I can try again or choose my .mac account or another account and it goes. sometimes I choose the same account and it goes.
I don't understand and have played with manual configuration only to mess things up so nothing works at all. My server is a Pop server. Any ideas?
Time Machine:
-Initial backup was extremely fast and at least 2x faster then the initial B/U on the Buffalo. Incrementals are un-noticeable now.
-Our second MacBook required the preferences file to be wiped out (corrupted) and the Genius told me all I had to do was repoint Time Machine back to Time Capsule. It currently see's her old backups but does not generate new backups. I don't understand this. If it can see the drive and restore works (we restored mailboxes after renewing preferences) why won't it backup? If I do repoint to TC do I lose the previous backups?
Everything is working but just not as seamless as I would have expected and re-sending e-mail and slow downloads makes no sense to me. Help me if you can.
Thanks;
Boomerang

Boomerang,
Your email issue could have something to do with DNS settings not being in the TC...
Repointing your MacBook to the TC should not have any impact on the previous backups... i.e. it will not delete them.
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Time Machine Network drive no longer available

I have an iomega network drive with 2 TBs of storage. I originally set it up as my Time Machine (TM) back-up device
and it had been working for several months. Then it filled up and would no longer do any back-ups.
I changed the back-up device to a USB external, did a back-up to it and then went and deleted all of the old
back-ups on the networkd drive. Then I tried to switch the back-up device to the network drive again
and even though the network drive is accessible in Finder, it does not show up as a drive option
in the Time Machine preferences. How do I make it available again.
I am running OS X version 10.7.5.

Hi Richard,
Did you delete the older stuff in Finder, or in TM itself?
Have you looked through Pondini's extensive TM help site?
http://Pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Can't imaging something not being covered there.

Time Machine network backup swapped to USB backup

Hi there,
I have a Time Machine Backup drive connected to my Airport Extreme network, which backups both my iMac and Macbook Pro which I love - it is totally no hassle and has been great.
However I have just moved house and will not be able to set up a network again for a few weeks - my question is can I plug my Time Machine drive directly into my MacBook Pro/iMac to back up as normal? I don't want to erase the backups already on the drive, I just want to add to it as it would do automatically on the network. Has anyone had any experience with this - I'm hesitant to try it out incase I lose my backups!
Thanks!

Hi. Don't know if you ever got yours working, but was having the same problem after many successful backups and nothing changed on my system. I shut down my computer and then unplugged the TC for a few minutes. Let it restart. Then restarted my computer and reselected the TC in Preferences>Time Machine>Options and now it's backing up normally. Of course I have no idea if this actually fixed the problem, but it is working.

Time Machine - Deleting user

We are re-situating the kids on their own computer. What I need to know so that I don't have to face the wrath of a 16 year old in case I mess up: I use time machine and have continual back-ups. I want to delete my son's user. Will his user data remain on my external drive (and be accesible) until the drive deletes it due to current back-ups?
Thanks in advance...Karen

Karen Woods wrote:
We are re-situating the kids on their own computer. What I need to know so that I don't have to face the wrath of a 16 year old in case I mess up: I use time machine and have continual back-ups. I want to delete my son's user. Will his user data remain on my external drive (and be accesible) until the drive deletes it due to current back-ups?
Yes. You can delete all backups of it, if you want, but otherwise it will remain until the last old backup it's on is deleted (likely more than a month).
As Kappy says, if you back the new Mac up via TIme Machine, it will start fresh with a full backup. If you back it up to the same external HD, your best bet will be to partition it, if you can, so each Mac's backups are kept separate. See #4 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).

Time Machine Network HD

Hi
I have a macbook running leopard and an imac running leopard on the same network. On the time machine page it says you can back up to another mac. I want to use my imac as my hd for my macbook's time machine. How do i go about doing this?
Thanks

On the MacBook, open a Finder window. Find the iMac listed under "Shared" in the sidebar, select it and connect to it. You may need to open the volume you intend to use for the Time Machine backup.
Open Time Machine Preferences (click and hold on the TM dock icon until the menu pops up and select it, or open System Preferences and select Time Machine. If it's off, turn it on and it should ask you which disk(volume) to use. If it doesn't, or you already have one selected, click on the Change Disk button. Select the volume on your iMac you want to use, and you're done. Use Options to exclude anything on your MacBook disk that you don't want to backup.
The first (complete) backup will take a while.

Time machine network harddrive

Hi there,
I/m new in using time machine on my iMac.
Now i'm using a external harddrive (1TB) connected by usb.
I would rather like to use a harddrive which is connected to my network; I see it in finder, but can't be selected as a drive for Time Machine; it only shows "local" connected drive's connected by usb.....
q/ Is there a possibility to use the harddrive connected to my network ?

In theory as long as your TM can see the HD you can backup to it. But, and you would need to double check this, you may well need your HD formatted to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I suspect your Windows HD is formatted NTFS and I doubt if you could partition re-format without loosing your data.
There are a number of options for your backup plan so come back if we're on the right track.
Joe

Time Machine Network: possible to setup quota?

Hi Folks,
I have several computers successfully backing up via Time Machine to Leopard Server sharepoint using the "Enable as Time Machine backup destination".
My question: how can I enable a quota on the directory (within a volume) where this data is being stored?
I've scoured the archives for an answer, but haven't found one yet.
Many thanks in advance.
Lurch

TM will not work with any network drive (NAS) except Time Capsule.
Requirements to use Time Machine
Time Machine is only available with Leopard (10.5.x)
1. External FireWire or USB 2.0 drive
2. Time Capsule
3. Drive shared by a Mac running 10.5 or later using File Sharing
4. Drive shared by a Mac running 10.5 Server
5. SAN volume managed by Apple's Xsan file system
A TM drive must be partitioned with either APM (PPC) or GUID (Intel) and formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled.)

Time Machine Network Bug?

With a Macbook Pro, I am connected to the network using ethernet cable. I manually start a Time Machine backup. After it starts, I disconnect the ethernet cable. Instead of Time Machine continue the backup using the Wireless network, the backup stops. Everything else (Safari for example) continue to work using the Wireless network. If I start the backup again, it starts and completes on the Wireless network.
Is this a bug?

I have another bug involving Time Machine and Spaces:
When Time Machine is creating the the initial backup, an annoying small window with the progress bar is in the desktop. If you moved to a different space just not to see it in you working space, Time Machine stops. At this point is really really ANNOYING since my backup disk is remote, the initial backup is 299 GB and at this pace it will take the entire week or more to recreate the image... Not to mention that TM is creating this initial image because the sparce image i had GOT CORRUPTED after 6 MONTHS...
Is clear that I'm really ****** off?

Time Machine network connection problems. Scary.

I have several problems with the Time Machine backup system. I do not know if they are based on the same basic problem or if these are different problems. Therefor I will describe the whole complex here:
I have a setup with 2 computers, a Mac Pro and a Laptop Pro, and 2 different backup discs (2TB Lacie backup disc), all of this connected to the router with ethernet except the laptop which goes with wifi. The plan was to have one disc to back up each computer.
Initially I got the setup to work. But after a while, both computers says that there is a problem finding its backup disc. This happens without any changes in setup, passwords or physical connections. Sometimes I am able to connect to the backup disc by typing in the ip address or otherwise, and sometimes that doesn't work either. When I finally (sometimes) get contact between machine and its backup disc, the Time Machine panel shows "no previous backup". Pretty scaring. All my work is on those discs (should be).
Another problem is, for the Mac Pro machine, that it sometimes says "not enough free space on disc for backup". At the same time, Time Machine is set up to delete older backup versions as soon as it is needed. How does that fit together?
Today I bought a new and expensive router (Netgear 600), just in case it was something wrong with the old one. But I still have the same problems.
Any enlightening on this situation is very much appreciated!
Thanks

Hi all,
To fix the Time Capsule network backup error, I removed the 5GHZ band from my AEB network.
After that it backed everything up all fine.

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