Comments on: Snow Leopard, Time Machine, and Iomega ix4-200d

By: slowe

slowe — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:13:35 +0000

Oliver, I haven’t tested this with the latest firmware. Once I got it up and running, I haven’t had to mess with it again.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:07:17 +0000

Do you see this problem with the latest firmware? I have an ix-200 and now the sparsebundle file is created only with the hostname as you say it should.

By: Gwyneth Llewelyn

Gwyneth Llewelyn — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:43:36 +0000

Thank you for those tips. I’m still using Leopard with a Iomega Home Network Media Drive, and I keep forgetting how to create a disk for Time Machine to work with. I’m glad you’re keeping this post around

By: Jason Rimmer

Jason Rimmer — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:41:59 +0000

An FYI for those doing research before purchase the workaround here isn’t necessary: OSX 10.6.2 (on two different machines) and ix4-200d firmware 2.1.30.8298 work well together.

By: Jerry Zeisler

Jerry Zeisler — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:21:08 +0000

Although I didn’t have this problem with my ix4 200d and Time Machine on my MBP with SL, I am having the problem with SuperDuper creating a sparsebundle on an ix4 share. It creates a sparseimage with no problem, but haven’t been able to make it work with sparsebundle. Any hints for that one?

I created an iSCSI drive on the ix4 and use GlobalSAN for the drives, and SuperDuper handles that fine.

By: Brian Keegan

Brian Keegan — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:43:06 +0000

Similar experience to Harry. My Lacie Bigdisk power supply failed for the second time so I decided to invest in an Iomega Home Media network drive as a replacement but couldn’t get Time Machine to back up to it.
This solution solved the problem and is now working. Thank you.

By: Harry Shamansky

Harry Shamansky — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:54:49 +0000

I can’t thank you enough!

This did the trick for my Iomega Home Media Network drive that was supposedly Time Machine Compatible. I had been searching for help for a few hours and I thought of giving up, returning the Iomega, and just getting a Time Capsule, but these directions were great. Easy to understand, too.

Thank you so much!!

By: Mike Horwath

Mike Horwath — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:21:10 +0000

This also works with other devices – the steps above are not Iomega specific.

One item I’d want to make clear is that the side of your ‘sparsebundle’ image you make is static after creation for TM backups. If you want 500GB today and 1TB tomorrow, better to make it 1TB to start.

Mr. Lowe’s directions are a little easier for the non-initiated Apple user to understand. Thanks!