By default, when you are using Time Machine in Mac OS X, every time you insert a drive the system will ask you if you would like to use that drive as a Time Machine backup destination. If you are like me and you swap drives around a lot then this can get annoying. So to stop it you can actually just disable a launchd System Daemon, com.apple.backupd-attach. To do so, simply move the /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-attach.plist to another location and viola, on the next restart when you attach a disk Time Machine won’t ask you if you wish to add the disk to your Time Machine destinations. /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-attach.plist While this is one…
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TimeMachine Over Xsan and iSCSI
Now that I’ve shown over the years how to setup an Xsan and iSCSI targets on Mac OS X I am starting to get a number of questions about how to set these up in such a way that Time Machine can backup to them. Since they’re not your typical disks in a lot of cases there’s a small command that you’ll need to run to make it work: defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 Essentially, once you’ve run this command you’ll be able to back up to anything that appears in /Volumes and then some (for example share points on your local network might appear even if you haven’t yet…
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Mac OS X 10.5: Using Unsupported Disks with Time Machine
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal If you want to use an unsupported disk type for your Time Machine archives, running the following command on workstations will allow you to do so: defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1