![]() Please note, just backing up your Mac to an external drive or network attached storage without sending those backups also off premises does not constitute a solid data backup and recovery strategy. I also assume that the Time Machine backups will be encrypted, so we won’t be dealing with encryption on the Raspberry Pi end. You are not afraid of Terminal and comfortable with command line. Since we are talking about Time Machine, I assume you have at least one Mac in your possession with working SSH client. A few things to get out of the way before proceeding: You should now be able to access the USB disk from the Windows PC.This is a step-by-step, start-to-finish guide to configure a Raspberry Pi as a network storage device for macOS Time Machine backups. Enter the address “\\piCoreLMS\LMSfiles” and then username “tc” and the password that you assigned to Samba at the end of step 6. Right-click on ThisPC and select “Add a network location”. On your Windows PC, launch Windows Explorer. When this has completed, return to the previous page. Scroll down to the “Setup Samba Share” section and enter a value for “Password”, then click on “Set Password”. ![]() When this has completed, scroll down to the “Setup Samba Share” section and enter values for “Server Name”, piCoreLMS “Share Name”, LMSfiles “Share Path”, /mnt/LMSfiles and “Create File Mode”, 0775 then click on “Set Samba” In either case, select “LMS” from the menu bar, and scroll down to the “Setup Samba Share” section, and click on “Install”. ![]() Having completed the setup, you should now be able to play audio from the piCoreLMS to the internal piCorePlayer.Īpply power to your Raspberry Pi and wait for it to boot up and connect to the network. Unless you wish to set up a mysqueezebox account, skip the first LMS set up screen, then select your music and playlist locations on your USB disk. In “Logitech Media Server (LMS) operations” select “Configure LMS”. Scroll down to “Save LMS Server Cache and Preferences to Mounted Drive” click on the “Enabled” radio button next to USB Disk and click on “Move LMS Data” All you have to do now is to name the mount point, click on the “Enabled” radio button and then click on “Set USB Mount”. You should note that your USB disk has been automatically detected. In either case, select “LMS” from the menu bar, and scroll down to the “Pick from the following detected USB disks to mount” section. You should now be back at the “Welcome” or “Main Page” screen. Start the browser, and enter the IP address assigned to the Pi, this will usually be the same as the address you used previously, but if not use Advanced IP Scanner to obtain the new address as previously described. Remove the power from your Raspberry Pi, Plug-in the USB disk, re-apply the power and wait for your Pi to boot up and connect to the network. Step 2 - Adding an USB Hard Disk - Execution ![]() Now is a good time to backup and reboot your piCorePlayer, so return to the “Main Page” and then “Backup” and “Shutdown” In any case you will need to set up two directories on your USB hard disk for later use by LMS, these directories that will contain your music and playlists I have imaginatively set them up as “music” and “playlists” (ahem!). Windows users can pre-format such a disk using the free utility MiniTool Partition Manager, and this is in fact what I have done.Īppropriate directories can then be set up on the EXT4 disk from Windows using the free version of Extfs for Windows from Paragon software. Note that this step is not required if your disk is formatted as EXT4. If the USB hard disk you are adding is formatted as FAT32 or NTFS you will need to install the “additional Filesystems pack” before you can load and configure the disk. SAMBA Step 1 - Adding an USB Hard Disk - Preparation ![]()
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