I have a Linkstation Quad (LS-QL/1D) and have followed the instructions for getting AFP (file sharing) going again. Thanks for those that posted that.
Following that I looked around on the Internet for a way to get Time Machine working. Nothing
Decided to take matters into my own hands and took a stab at getting Time Machine working and succeeded. I did this by backing up the Lion versions of it and replacing it with Snow Leopard versions of it. I will revert it back once the Linkstation firmware update is ready.
What I did were the following steps. Quite a few steps but worth it in the end.
1. Make a backup of Lion's Time Machine software:
sudo mkdir ~/LionTMbackup
sudo cp -r /Applications/TimeMachine.app ~/LionTMbackup
sudo cp -r /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd* ~/LionTMbackup
sudo cp -r /System/Library/PreferencePanes/TimeMachine.prefPane ~/LionTMbackup
2. I then did a similar thing on the Snow Leopard Mac:
sudo mkdir ~/SLTMbackup
sudo cp -r /Applications/TimeMachine.app ~/SLTMbackup
sudo cp -r /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd* ~/SLTMbackup
sudo cp -r /System/Library/PreferencePanes/TimeMachine.prefPane ~/SLTMbackup
3. Zipped that one up then copied that over to the Lion computer's home directory (~):
cd ~
sudo zip -r SLTMbackup.zip SLTMbackup
4. Unzipped it on the Lion Mac:
cd ~
unzip SLTMbackup.zip
5. Deleted the Lion TimeMachine software:
sudo rm -rf /Applications/TimeMachine.app /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd* \
/System/Library/PreferencePanes/TimeMachine.prefPane
6. Killed the running backupd, mtmd and mtmfs:
killall backupd mtmd mtmfs
7. Copied in the Snow Leopard Time Machine software:
sudo cp -r ~/SLTMbackup/TimeMachine.app /Applications/
sudo cp -r ~/SLTMbackup/backupd* /System/Library/CoreServices/
sudo cp -r ~/SLTMbackup/TimeMachine.prefPane /System/Library/PreferencePanes/
8. Updated the standard exclusions files that will be used:
sudo cp ~/LionTMbackup/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/StdExclusions.plist \
/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/
sudo cp ~/LionTMbackup/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/System.plist \
/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/
I ran a backup ok though Finder froze on me. I had to kill it and restart it. Small price to pay for working backups :smileyhappy:
To the PR guy (sorry I can't go back to check your name right now): Please tell the engineers that we, the customers, don't really care if the box runs slower using DHX2 because the delay is only when the share is first connected. The optimization they are working on can come later. What we need now are Buffalos that can serve Lions.
