crea-doo | weblog » Mac OS X http://www.crea-doo.at/weblog Not just another weblog Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:06:12 +0000 de-at hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Create sparsebundle for Time-Machine http://www.crea-doo.at/weblog/2011/03/19/create-sparsebundle-for-time-machine/ http://www.crea-doo.at/weblog/2011/03/19/create-sparsebundle-for-time-machine/#comments Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:39:25 +0000 admin http://www.crea-doo.at/weblog/?p=278 To automatically create a sparsbundle file used for Time-Machine Backups on Network Attached Storages you can use the following script.

#!/bin/bash

NAME=”$(system_profiler | sed -ne \
‘s/.*Computer Name: //p’)_$(ifconfig en0 | awk \
‘$1==”ether”{gsub(“:”,”");print$NF}’).sparsebundle”

echo “Creating $NAME…”

hdiutil create -size 100g -fs HFS+J -volname “Time-Machine Backup” “$NAME”

echo “Done.”

THis is based on the hints provided in c’t magazine 12/2010 (p. 174)

More information on how to configure Time-Machine to backup to NAS you can find here or here.

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