Expanding horizons: Time Machine Wireless Backup without Time Capsule

A few weeks ago , I purchased a hard-drive enclosure for an old HDD I had, which gives me the ability to
- have a wireless NAS storage disk on my home network
- download BitTorrent from the NAS without a computer
- access the drive via FTP
which is pretty good for £40 and re-using a 500Gb disk I had.

But knowing me ... I also wanted to use it as a Time Machine drive for my Mac. But discovered that Apple only lets Mac formatted drives to use Time Machine :-( and this one has to stay FAT if I want to use all the features of the enclosure. Damned !

Google-ing ... I found a solution last week and only managed to try it today, it works beautifully.
The point is :
- create a Time Machine "disk image" on your computer first, then move it to the drive and Time Machine will "think" that it is his drive and will do the backup like a charm.

So, following the blog below, here are is my simplified bullet points :
1) Get computer name : (in preferences) Manzana-iBook (without the ".local")

2) Get Ethernet id : (in preferences) (built-in ethernet, no Airport!) 00:1b:63:32:58:22

3) build the Time Machine disk image as : --> Manzana-iBook_ 001b63325822.sparsebundle

4) open Terminal and type
DISK_IMAGE_NAME="Manzana-iBook_ 001b63325822.sparsebundle"
DISK_SIZE=200000
hdiutil create -library SPUD -megabytes $DISK_SIZE -fs HFS+J -type SPARSEBUNDLE -volname "$DISK_IMAGE_NAME" "$DISK_IMAGE_NAME"

5) open Finder Home directory
Copy the directory (looks like a file)
Manzana-iBook_ 001b63325822.sparsebundle
to your disk share.

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This is a killer : helps you to find information regarding contacts from emails, but also helps you see emails statistics per person, best time to call the contact, etc..
Looks great. Am installing it now !

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Enhance Twitter with Greasemonkey

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There Are Two Phones In this World: iPhone and Not iPhone

I SOOOOOOO agree with this post, I am exactly the same as Louis Gray, I have used Nokia, Panasonic, Philips, Siemmens, Palm, BlackBerry, Psion, Windows Mobile and more than I can remember but this... this iPhone is just the one I want to have all the time, day and night.
I listen to Podcast on my scooter on my way to work, if I take the tube I watch movies, at work I listen to music on Last.fm.
It fits in my pocket so that I can quickly grab it when I leave my desk (you never know may be I can spare 5 minutes in the gents to play something.. or check my facebook at the coffee machine...).
It's a pure beauty. I know for some people it sounds a bit weird to be close to in love with a device, I even laugh at people who used to call it "my Jesus Phone" when iPhone 3G was released and they queued to get their own, but yes after a few days with mine I am conquered!
Now the proble is that more and more people have one, and you don't feel so special anymore, but then you can share apps and enlight them with a new world that is opening to them.

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