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#MAC TIME MACHINE FOR WINDOWS MAC#

You might need to use adapters in case your hard drives come with a Thunderbolt cable, which is very rear.

#MAC TIME MACHINE FOR WINDOWS MAC#

The first step to access Time Machine backup files on Windows is connecting your Mac formatted hard drive to your Windows machine using the USB cable.

That leaves me still using TimeMachine primarily for the convenience of recent versions: 'darn get me the version from yesterday'. Connect Hard Drive to Your Windows PC/Laptop.

Some combination of iDrive, OneDrive, Github, Syncthing, Cubbit, diy Azure storage, for instance.

You should also have everything duplicated to somewhere that's at least fire-and-theft-isolated from your machine.

If you don't have 3 copies, you aren't serious about backup.

I have sometimes got through a year with Disk Utility or chkdsk alone repairing errors but that left me with a trail of old broken backup images.

I have been doing Time Machine backup to network share for 10 years and I reckon on a disk repair every other month. The symptom is then that the disk no longer mounts and your backup no longer runs. The problem is, as says, backup to a network share is a risk unless your server, router, network and client are all very reliable. And/Or use the commandline: tmutil setdestination /Volumes/Volumenameonceitsbeenmounted.If your disk doesn't appear as an option in Time Machine preferences use the line from Chealion's answer: defaults write TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1.

(The advantage of osascript over bash is that osascript will remember your password) osascript -e 'mount volume hdiutil attach /Volumes/servernameandorsharename.Or, add a cron job for a 2 line script:.🍎 Menu -> System Preferences -> Users and Groups -> Login Items -> '+' button -> Navigate to the network drive and select the sparsebundle.Optional: Add the disk image as a login item so that it is mounted when you log-in.Create a sparsebundle disk image per these instructions Windows NTFS Linux or other disk for Time Machine Backups and move it to your network file share.