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As my 500GB Time Capsule has reached the limits (my Macbook and the iMac of my wife used it as backup destination for Time Machine ), I decided to buy another backup drive and settled with the Western Digital WDH1NC10000E My Book World Edition 1TB NAS external drive. The main advantage (besides the price: I bought it fo r EUR 146,95 (incl. VAT and free transportation) for me was that I could easily connect it to a free Ethernet port of my Time Capsule - at least that was what I did expected. But after I connected the My Book to my network as discribed in the My Book manual, I had to discover that although it was available in the finder and I could manually copy files to it, it wasn't available in Time Machine as a back up destination. Furtunately obvioulsly others experienced this problem before and after some googling I came to the solution described in the post "Time Machine backups on network shares in Leopard" from Florian Kruse. Following the steps described the

I just followed the network upgrade instructions for Ubuntu Desktops (Recommended) and accepted the default values for the questions I was asked by the update tool (e.g. disable the proprietary display driver and use the default open source driver instead). Everything went smoothly. Afterwards I enabled the third party repositories again: http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu jaunty main http://packages.medibuntu.org/ jaunty free non-free The dropbox demon wasn't running, I had to install it again with dropbox start -i I realized that my backup python script using rsync didn't work any more, so that I had to install it again with: ~/Documents/Programming/Python_scripts/backup_daily$ sudo python setup.py install Afterwards, I could enjoy the improvements and new features of Ubuntu 9.04