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Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines?

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In article <3JqdnUQ0vcPnuvPSnZ2dnUVZ_uSdnZ2d@earthlink.com>, Ant
<ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:

> >>>> Is it possible to access an external USB HDD's data, that is used for
> >>>> Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups, on non-Apple Mac machines
> >>>> (Windows and Linux)? Or can it be only be accessed with a Mac? I use
> >>>> multiple computers and OSes.
> >>>
> >>> you need to install third party software that can read mac formatted
> >>> hard drives.
> >>>
> >>> <http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/standard/>
> >>
> >> Time Machine volumes are full of hard links to files and folders, so
> >> there might be a problem using MacDrive with them.
> >>
> >> <http://support.mediafour.com/entries/174761-macdrive-files-appear-as-ze
> >> ro-bytes-hard-links>
> >
> > You'll probably need a MacOS system up and running to serve the
> > filesystem with the TimeMachine information via CIFS.  That protocol can
> > be accessed by both Windows and Linux.  So, yes you can get at the data
> > and no you can't without a running MacOS system to serve that data.
> 
> So one would have to use another Mac machine to access Time Machine's 
> backups then. I am surprised non-Macs doesn't have a way to acccess them 
> by now.

i don't know where he got that idea. there is no need to use a mac for
accessing time machine backups. it's a standard hfs+ drive. the only
issue is hard links, which isn't a big deal.

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Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-03-24 09:15 -0700
  Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-24 13:12 -0400
    Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-03-24 10:41 -0700
    Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2012-03-24 12:24 -0600
      Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2012-03-24 11:55 -0700
        Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-03-24 12:58 -0700
          Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-24 16:24 -0400
            Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-03-24 16:39 -0700
            Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2012-03-24 19:33 -0600
              Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-24 22:36 -0400
          Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-24 16:24 -0400
    Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Tom Stiller <tom_stiller@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-24 20:00 -0400
      Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-24 20:51 -0400
      Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2012-03-24 19:40 -0700

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