How To Make A Windows Time Machine Server

[kevinherring]

Sure, if you go into Settings-->Storage, select the MyTimeCapsule-disk2.vmdk.

Then on the right of the screen next to where it says SATA Port 2 there is a little disk icon. Click that and select 'Create New hard disk' and follow the wizard.

You then need to boot up the VM and follow the instructions regarding formatting the hard disk in Part 2 on page 1.

Let me know if you need more info.

Let me start off that I am relatively new to Linux in generally, but this solution is just too perfect sounding to pass up.

I have been having quite a few issues following any of your command lines that involve the echo command. For example, I just cannot get the following command to work in a seemingly proper way:

echo /dev/sdb1 /mnt/MyTimeCapsuleData ext4 defaults 0 0 >>

If I type it exactly as it is, I get a bash error saying "syntax error near unexpected token 'newline'". If I leave out the carrots, it simply repeats everything after the echo command. Either way, I am not able to proceed onto the next step. Running the mount command afterwards usually results in an error saying "mount: can't find /mnt/MyTimeCapsuleData in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab".

Is there a step I am missing here or simply typing something incorrectly?

Thanks

[kevinherring]

Hi, I think there is something wrong with the formatting in the article. If you copy that whole code section into Word or something you will see that the line actually says:

echo /dev/sdb1 /mnt/MyTimeCapsuleData ext4 defaults 0 0 >> /etc/fstab

But for some reason the html markup isn't showing it.

The two greater than signs mean that you a redirecting the output of the echo command to a file instead of to the screen and appending to the end of the file if it already exists (a single greater than will overwrite an existing file if it already exists.

Try that complete command and let me know.
Kevin

Unfortunately when I try to import the appliance I get this error:
Failed to import appliance C:\Users\eggers\Desktop\mytimecapsule_11_15_11.ova .


Im new to VirtualBox and I'm not sure what could be the problem other than that the updated file in the tutorial is corrupted or does not work with my current version of virtualbox - 4.1.6
Do you have any idea why im getting it?

[thiggins]

I have gone back through Part 2 and removed the system prompts to prevent truncated lines. Kevin, better give it another look to make sure that the edits are ok.

[kevinherring]

Pellet: I have double checked the appliance and it works on mine. I'll do some more checks tomorrow and see if I can find a problem.

Tim: I'll take a look.

I uninstalled virtual box 4.1.6 and installed the older version used in the tutorial - v4.1.2 but im still getting the same error...
Should I be able to import the appliance straight after installing virtual box?
I didn't install it as a service...
The error still is 'Failed to import appliance' which is a very generic error message, is there a way to make the error more verbose or to be able to check a log somehow?
Thanks!
-pellet

[kevinherring]

Hi Pellet, I'm afraid, as you say, that error message is too generic to do anything with. I'm not sure if it is possible to turn on logging.

Are you able to create a machine to see if that works?
Thanks
Kevin

The link to the appliance file appears to be broken :/

[thiggins]

Originally Posted by jc2532

The link to the appliance file appears to be broken :/

Sorry about that. File was deleted during a recent server move. It's back up now.