|Montana Bengal| Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 I'm hoping someone can help me out. I'v tried googling the answer to this, but it is a little above my head. I'm trying to hook a 1TB external drive up to my router with DD-WRT on it and use the drive as a back. BUT DD-wrt won't mount the drive since it is formatted for OSX journaled. Any thoughts for a work-around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 Not easy, and not advised. You [b]can[/b] mount an HFS+ partition in Linux, but to keep it from making a mess you have to disable the journaling, which would render Time Machine inoperable and basically defeat the purpose of TM. I've had poor to no luck mounting a drive for TM backup on non-DD-WRT routers and figre there's a reason why Apple offers Time Capsule... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted April 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 Since I broke my front tooth this evening and there is little chance I have any spare cash any time soon....any alternatives you'd suggest (to time machine)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted April 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 I'm kind of pissed about the tooth if you can't tell :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 Not with your current configuration; most of the alternatives I would recommend involve a NAS or server. Happen to have a spare PC laying about?[quote name='Montana Bengal' timestamp='1334633296' post='1119041'] I'm kind of pissed about the tooth if you can't tell :-) [/quote] I would be too, as that really sucks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted April 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 Have you heard of ChronoSync? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 No, but it looks promising. Free trial and it only costs $40? Why the hell not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted April 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 Looks like I can connect to the drive on the dd-wrt and then I can select which directories I want to back up. Right now it says that the file name length won't be preserved because I'm using Fat32 (just testing)....would I have better luck with ext2 or 3? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 What about exFAT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted April 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 I could do exFat. I'll update you tomorrow. I'm heading to bed. Thanks for the help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted April 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 Alright, I've got another question...is it possible to run a small USB hub off a DD-wrt enabled router? Basically I'm wondering if I can run 2 Hard Drives off of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Haven't tried that but it's worth a shot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted April 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 I'm running into a problem with this. For some reason, when I have my partitions mounted (2) and then try to copy any files, it won't let me because they are apparently too small. 6.4 MB (note that I have two 500 gb). Any thoughts why this might be happening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted April 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 OSX -> Connect to Server -> IP -> selecting the partition....in case you are wondering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 It's not reading the volume\partition table. You formatted them exFAT? Trying to remember if Lion supports exFAT as I'm not sure SL did... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted April 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 And I'm running SL currently. I wasn't sure if Lion was worth the upgrade and if my machine would handle it. They are both exFat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 If you're running 10.4.6 or 10.4.5 you should have exFAT support. Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted April 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 10.7.3 "/mnt [not avabible]" when I look at paths under NAS. When I check under USB, it appears both are mounted. I may try to reformat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Sorry, that should have been 10.6.x (damn you, beer). Yeah, try formatting them in disk utility and see if that helps.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted April 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Worse case scenario, would it be horrible to format ext2 or 3? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 What can it really hurt at this point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Another possibility that doesn't cost much: [url="http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/"]http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted April 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 Got this working (finally) ext2 was what finally worked....that said, I'm not sure how to map two different partitions so I can fnd each from OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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