How to setup TimeMachine on a network drive with disk quota
Well, once you bought your NAS or configured a dedicated PC with network drive you’ll obviously want to setup Time Machine. The problem is, once configured to backup to a networked drive your TimeMachine will eat all available space.
For those lucky ones, who shared a dedicated disk partition on their drive — there’s no problem at all. But I was not one of them. Recently, I’ve purchased a used Buffalo LS-WXL Linkstation duo inserted two new 1TB drives and configured it as a RAID0 array. As a result, almost whole 2Tb partition became available for sharing — despite how hard I tried to figure out xfs quotas on target partition, no success.
Well, there are bad and good news.
- The good news is that you may limit your Time Machine disk quota by using something called sparse disk bundles.
- The bad news is that you’ll need root access to your NAS in order to apply permissions hack to make it work with latest versions of Time Machine
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