- Login to your SMB with Finder, and save the password to Keychain.
- Create
timemachine-macbook.sparsebundle
under the SMB root directory.- You need to choose "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)", not "APFS", even if your MachintoshOS drive is APFS.
- Because such a buckup cannot be encrypted by TimeMachine, I recommend to set up disk encryption at this timing.
- If you set password, save the password as accountName =
TimeMachineSparseBundlePass
in your login keyring. - ref. https://blog.fosketts.net/2015/07/22/how-to-use-mac-os-x-sparse-bundle-disk-images/
- Mount it to
/Volumes/TimeMachine
. - Run
tmutil setdestination /Volumes/TimeMachine
as root (withsudo
). - Allow
security
command to access your keyring to automate mounting TimeMachine drive.security find-generic-password -wa TimeMachineSparseBundlePass
security find-internet-password -ws ***SMB HOSTNAME***
- If you are prompted, always allow
security
to access these passwords.
- Save the attached
mounttm.plist
andmkmountpoint.plist
to local. - Rename
***xxx***
points according to your environment. - Place
mkmountpoint.plist
at/Library/LaunchDaemons/mkmountpoint.plist
.- This file creates mount point for SMB under
/Volumes
. - Execution of this command requires root permission.
- This file creates mount point for SMB under
- Place
mounttm.plist
at~/Library/LaunchAgents/mounttm.plist
.- This file creates mount point for SMB under
/Volumes
. - Execution of this command requires root permission.
- This file creates mount point for SMB under
- Reboot the machine and check everything works.
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How to set up TimeMachine drive on your NAS (but inefficient, slow).
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | |
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> | |
<plist version="1.0"> | |
<dict> | |
<key>Label</key> | |
<string>com.tomykaira.mkmountpoint</string> | |
<key>ProgramArguments</key> | |
<array> | |
<string>/bin/sh</string> | |
<string>-c</string> | |
<string>mkdir -p /Volumes/timemachine-smb && chown ***YOUR MAC USER NAME*** /Volumes/timemachine-smb</string> | |
</array> | |
</dict> | |
</plist> |
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<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> | |
<plist version="1.0"> | |
<dict> | |
<key>Label</key> | |
<string>com.tomykaira.mounttm</string> | |
<key>ProgramArguments</key> | |
<array> | |
<string>/bin/sh</string> | |
<string>-c</string> | |
<string>mount_smbfs "//***Windows UserName***:$(security find-internet-password -ws ***HOSTNAME***)@***HOSTNAME***/***FOLDER NAME***" /Volumes/timemachine-smb && printf '%s\0' "$(security find-generic-password -wa TimeMachineSparseBundlePass)" | hdiutil attach -encryption AES-128 -stdinpass -mountpoint /Volumes/TimeMachine /Volumes/timemachine-smb/timemachine-macbook.sparsebundle</string> | |
</array> | |
</dict> | |
</plist> |
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