Using a Network Share for Apple Time Machine

I found these useful articles about using a network share with Apple Time Machine (Apples built-in backup feature).

http://rajeev.name/blog/2007/11/03/time-machine-with-smb-and-nfs-shares/

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5918065&#5918065

There appears to be some issues with using a network share once it runs out of space, as the backups are not pruned correctly from what I can tell from the posts. There is a post on the firrst link that says the issue has been resolved with a recent Time Machine update, but not for sure if that’s the case. I haven’t tried it myself yet (not that brave yet ;-) ) plus I have an external drive that I use for backups anyway..

Here’s also a nice article on tweaking Time Machine:

http://www.1nova.com/blog/?p=160

And here’s a link to a Time Machine alternative (includes a comparison chart too):

http://www.crashplan.com/features/timeMachine.vtl