{"id":39584,"date":"2009-11-10T15:30:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T20:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=123359"},"modified":"2009-11-10T15:30:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T20:30:05","slug":"an-applescript-trick-turns-any-nas-device-into-a-time-machine-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/39584","title":{"rendered":"An AppleScript trick turns any NAS device into a Time Machine drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nYou can turn any network attached storage device into a Time Machine back-up drive with one simple step.<\/p>\n

Simply download this app package<\/A> and drag your drive onto it. The script adds the drive as a Time Machine capable device and then you can simply add it under Time Machine System Preferences.<\/p>\n

The full script is right here if you want to roll your own:<\/p>\n

on open names
\n set volumeName to names as text
\n set macAddress to (do shell script \"ifconfig en0 | grep ether | tr -d '\\\\011' | sed s\/ether\/\/ | sed 's\/ \/\/g' | sed s\/:\/\/g\")
\n set hostName to (do shell script \"hostname -fs\")
\n tell application \"Finder\"
\n set theSize to round (((capacity of startup disk) \/ 1024 \/ 1024) \/ 1024)
\n end tell<\/p>\n

do shell script \"defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1\" with administrator privileges<\/p>\n

do shell script \"sudo hdiutil create -size \" & theSize & \" -type SPARSEBUNDLE -nospotlight -volname \\\"Backup of \" & hostName & \"\\\" -fs \\\"Journaled HFS+\\\" ~\/\" & hostName & \"_\" & macAddress & \".sparsebundle\" with administrator privileges
\n do shell script \"mv ~\/\" & hostName & \"_\" & macAddress & \".sparsebundle \/Volumes\/\" & volumeName & \"\/\" with administrator privileges<\/p>\n

tell application \"Finder\" to eject volumeName<\/p>\n

tell application \"System Preferences\"
\n activate
\n end tell<\/p>\n

tell application \"System Events\"
\n tell application process \"System Preferences\"
\n set frontmost to true
\n click menu item \"Time Machine\" of menu \"View\" of menu bar 1
\n end tell
\n end tell<\/p>\n

end open<\/code><\/p>\n

via MacOSXHints<\/A><\/p>\n

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You can turn any network attached storage device into a Time Machine back-up drive with one simple step. Simply download this app package and drag your drive onto it. The script adds the drive as a Time Machine capable device and then you can simply add it under Time Machine System Preferences. The full script […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}