Timemachine

[kenho794]

Does any god have good Idea
I gonna set timemachine in our company by casper manager profile (around 100 users)
And the data store in afp://server-mp/backups and the server-mp installed server.app

now my question.
DOES ANY PEOPLE have good idea how to apply the timemachine setting to the managed client
I tried via manager profile but which not very stable, Sometime when i try to update the setting which can't effect

And how to apply the time machine setting to Macbook air. As the macbook air didn't have connection at start up so that the timemachine profile setting can't effect

There mush someone run the same enviroment as me
Please help!!!!!

[davidacland]

Hi,

You can configure this using the tmutil command line set to run once as a policy.

Look up man tmutil in the terminal for more info.

[kenho794]

@davidacland Hi Can you please help me for that
sudo tmutil setdestination afp://$curuser:$PASSWORD@SERVER-MP.oocl.com/Backups

Do you have any idea to get the PASSWORD variable of local user?

[davidacland]

I think ideally you wouldn't store the password in there as it would be readable in clear text.

You could either use kerberos authentication or possibly save the password in the keychain. For the second option you would need to have the user enter the password, unless you already know it?

[kenho794]

@davidacland Hi David
I am trying to let the end user to enter the password in prompt up screen
But i really dont know how to do it.

for the destination which need AD credential so that the BACKUP data can own by theirselves

TKS

[davidacland]

When the backup first tries to run, does it prompt for the users password?

[kenho794]

@davidacland no, nothing prompt

[kenho794 · Accepted solution]

@davidacland Hi david
I user cocoadialog solved my problem
Thanks