No prescription vicodin. Vicodin. Vicodin without prescription….

I’ve moved the server into the living room so don’t have to pull cables through the flat (so it can be on the Internet). God, it’s laud. Can’t hear the TV. MW08 and new minis, fingers crossed.

That’s a lot spent on Apple stuff. They should be happy. And I bet it’s often a handful of people in places like that who take the figures up. It wasn’t ITs idea to get MBP’s for the Exec Team or making sure 99% of computers bought by students being designed in California. I’m seeing a crop of youngsters growing in our schools with healthy cravings for Apples.

Anyhow, hope you get a copy!

are you running 10.5 Server on your home server machine now ?
i’m hoping to get an copy for evaluation from apple at some point (apparently we spent over £300k with them [institute wide] this summer so they’re a bit friendlier with us now).

I hope the ‘normal’ user don’t start thinking of this as Archive. I can see that happening as it’s so easy to think that ‘Time Machine, the place where my old file live’.

I had few problems with 10.5.0 and TM, after backing up about 20 or so gigs, it would just hang up and say ‘Error while backing up’. No other explanation. That hasn’t happened again with 10.5.1.

i thought in 10.5.0 it was disabled… and as i understood there were two hacks which made it appear to work:

1) mount the external drive locally, setup timemachine to that drive once, then move the external drive to its point on the network. timemachine continues to backup. but, and it’s a big but, apparently it Won’t restore. not such a great hack.

2) do a “/System/Library/sudo defaults com.apple.timemachine allowNetworkBackup true” style voodoo (as detailed on daringfireball). which probably makes both backup and restore work. but is unsupported, obviously.

the thing is, this is Backup. as in emergency-save-your-ass Backup. you don’t really want to be running backup as an unsupported hack. you need to know it’s going to work (this was partly why there was such a kerfuffle regarding the apple Backup.app 3.0 which couldn’t successfully restore more than 4,096 files at a time [or some limited number like that]).

other than that,
this script looks fine. i’d probably add a ‘try’ ‘end try’ wrapper around the mount line to avoid it throwing errors if the drive isn’t there.

alternatively, you can just put a hyperlink in the ‘Open at Login’ thing in system preferences to do this (obviously it won’t know to only run when you’re on your home lan). which’ll achieve the almost same thing with less effort.