Time machine

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Quick steps for getting your Fonera to work with Apple's Time Machine:

1. Update your fonera to 2.2.6.0 rc5 or newer rc5 download
2. Connect your external-hd to your fonera and make sure it mounts (usb light lights up on fonera). If it doesn't: connect your external-hd to your mac through usb and make sure your it has journalling disabled (use mac OSX disc utility)
3. Confirm you can read/write to the external-hd from your OSX finder but it won't show up in Time Machine preferences as a selectable disc
4. follow the steps as outlined in Use Time Machine with a Network Drive (NAS) and Use Time Machine with a Network Drive (NAS) (part2) which boil down to:
   1. open your terminal and enter: defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
   2. confirm the external-hd now does show up in Time Machine preferences as a selectable disc: select it
   3. start Time Machine, and see how it creates a file on your external-hd called something like: ComputerName_0011a234b5c6.tmp.sparsebundle
   4. copy the name of this file (not the file itself) into a text editor, remove the .tmp to get: ComputerName_0011a234b5c6.sparsebundle
   5. Wait for Time Machine to exit with an error code as it can't create the file ComputerName_0011a234b5c6.sparsebundle on your external-hd
   6. open your terminal and enter: hdiutil create -fs HFS+J -volname "Backup of ComputerName" ComputerName_0011a234b5c6.sparsebundle
   7. copy the created .sparsebundle file to your external hard disc (now you have created the file Time Machine tried to create)
5. Make the first Time machine backup over wifi (or connect to your fonera with a LAN cable to speed things up a bit) and yes, this will probably take some time (as in 1/2 days). Your external-hd needs to have journalling disabled for it to work with the Fonera. If you make the initial time machine backup through a direct usb connection, Time Machine will enable journalling automatically and thus the fonera won't be able to mount the disc afterwards.

Mac OS 10.6.x It seems that Apple wants the Hardware UUID of your Mac to be in a plist file on the sparsebundle. Instructions here.