Hello,

 

Curious to know if anyone else has a Mac and uses their UnRaid as the Time Machine drive for the backups.

 

Just bought myself a Mac and was going to setup a share for this, but started to think about the frequency that it would be spinning up the drives.

 

Any thoughts/comments/setups that I should think about?

 

Thanks!

I am using Timemachine with unraid. I have setup a 1TB AFP share for my mac. Normally, osx starts backing up every hour, so you will have the backup disk spinned up forever. Personally i find an hourly incremental backup a bit overdone, so i am using a tool (TimeMachineEditor) to change that, so my mac now makes a backup once a week, on saturday 07:00. An incremental backup takes about 8 to 10 minutes, and a weekly increment is good enough for me. Offcourse you could decide to make it daily etc.

 

http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/

 

I couldnt get it to work reliably with unRAID.  Every few days, my Mac would tell me it could not connect.  I havent tried in a few verions of unRAID though.

 

Ended up sticking a 1TB USB on one of my AirPort Extremes.

Jowi,

 

Thanks for the advice.....this is probally just what I need.  I will probally do something similar and install a 1tb drive and dedicate the share to just that drive and then use the software you mention.

 

 

Yeah it's easy to try it this way, see if it fits your needs. Must say, once every few months or so, for some reason the mac can't find the TM share, or keeps it spinning up every hour after the weekly backup is made. Don't know why, but restarting the mac usually solves it...

I have LION and use UNRAID for Timemachine...and I, too, was uncertain that TM would be stable.

 

I carefully read all forum threads on TM, and I set my UnRAID server up like this:

---I use UnRAID 5.0rc16c. 

---I restrict TimeMachine Share to one physical disk.

---And I have the TimeMachine Share set up so that it does *NOT* use the cache drive.

 

I've never had a problem.

I agree that a one hour backup is a bit extreme.

I use a 12 hour schedule