Why didn’t anyone tell me…

I have an Infrant ReadyNAS x600 or whatever they were back in those days, and it’s a rock solid little network server. I also run lots of differing Macs and PCs in the house. My backup solution up until Leopard was to take complete disk images. Since SuperDuper is still a week out of releasing their Leopard update and I decided I’ve been risking things too long, I figured I’d try this Time Machine thing. But, Time Machine wouldn’t let me do network backups to a non-OS X Server network share. Made me unhappy. And then yesterday I stumbled across this command:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

And guess what.

I’m happy.