Leopard Time Machine Ad (Photo credit: Feras Hares)

I know, I keep on making boring videos, but here is another one…  The video right after the break will show you how to configure AFP so you can enable a Time Machine with FreeNAS.  With Time Machine on FreeNAS, you don’t have to backup your Mac laptop such as MacBook Air to an external hard drive any longer, because it’s very inconvenient if you have to carry both the laptop and the external hard drive around.  Just remember though, my method in the video is to enable one user per one Time Machine virtual volume.  This means, if you have two Mac laptops, you have to create two Time Machine virtual volumes (i.e., ZFS datasets).  You can configure the permissions for each Time Machine volume.  You can either give full access of the volume to everyone or just the user, but I suggest you should set 755 permission for the volume as user would have full access to the volume and the everyone else will only have read and execute permissions.  Enjoy the video right after the break…

Related articles

• Free Up Some Hard Drive (Or SSD) Space For Your Mac By Having Spotify Stores Offline Playlists On A NAS Volume (essayboard.com)
• Ultra-slim USB external hard drive designed for the Apple MacBook Air (william96.typepad.com)
• Gigabit LAN Empowers Productivity Such As Running Virtual Machines On A Network Attached Storage’s iSCSI (essayboard.com)
• Windows 7 Home Premium And CrashPlan Won’t Support Network Attached Storage As Backup Solution? No Problem! Using FreeNAS ISCSI To Trick Both Into Thinking Network Attached Storage’s Volumes/Partitions As Local Devices So Backup Can Be Done! (essayboard.com)
• The Ultimate Triple Backup Solution For Your Mac [Mac OSX] (makeuseof.com)
• I Don’t Need A World Backup Day To Remind Me To Do Backups, Because I Rely On Automation! (essayboard.com)
• Setting Up iSCSI With FreeNAS So Any Computer Can Have Additional Virtual Internal Hard Drives (essayboard.com)
• Using FreeNAS’s CIFS Service To Allow Local Computers (e.g., Mac, Windows, Linux) To Share Data Within A Local Network (essayboard.com)
• Sometimes, Glossing Over The Simplest Things Would Prevent One From Fixing The Problems (essayboard.com)
• Using FreeNAS With VirtualBox To Create A True Personal Storage Cloud? (essayboard.com)
• How to convert an old PC into a modern server (howto.techworld.com)