How to use Time Machine to backup your Mac to a Windows shared folderNeed to use Windows as a backup location for Time Machine? Here's how!
Apple's Time Machine is the go-to backup method for many Mac users. Apple's termination of the AirPort series puts some users in a lurch over how they will be continuing to backup their Macs using Time Machine when Time Capsule is no more. Luckily there a few Apple approved Time Machine backup options sans Time Capsule.
However, not everyone will be able or willing to use a spare Mac as a backup location or attach yet another external drive or even buy an expensive Time Machine capable NAS. There do exist other hacked solutions that will allow you to use any networked location including a Windows share. Although this method cobbles together various utilities to make it function (and as such could be subject to points of failure), you can easily set up Time Machine to use a non-approved location for backups. Here's how!
The problem
Create a Windows share location
Make the remote share automatically mount
make Ti...
Source:
How to use Time Machine to backup your Mac to a Windows shared folder
