Second that! See all these new Pogoplug versions appear (pro, biz, video) but hardly any improvement for the early adapters who bought the nice pink thing despite laughters of their friends and rocking the thing to its maximum all the time.
Please let them have a little joy and make Time Machine work on Pogoplug!

Not sure why this is still not addressed now that they have added it to the drobo device. Make it happen Pogo. These devices would sell even faster if this support was added and properly advertised.

Has this been added yet (or will it be added soon)?

I was planning on buying a pogo plug for each of my 112 employees (plus one for myself) so they can access their work files at home, however, since we run off Macbooks, Time Machine compatibility is a must.

Also, if you do have Time Machine compatibility, do you offer a discount for buying 100+ units?

Thanks

How could it be a license fee issue for apple? I can buy any old hard drive and plug it into a USB port and make it my Time Machine. It is a formatting issue for hard drives, you need the proper formatting and Pogoplug does not support the format that is required.

Duh... of course it is only a license issue if you want to use Time Machine over the network. For USB you are free to use any device.

Give us time machine support! QNAP gives it to all NAS customers!

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Right now, one of the biggest issues is the handling of HFS+ volumes (aka Apple hard drive format). Past that, the resources are open source to be able to support this, but then a second concern is the amount of memory available to the device. Past that, the Pogoplug devices do not have any large scale internal (and thus unlikely to be removed at any given rate) storage that it can more easily say will have a constant location in the file system.

Also, YOU are labeling it critical and "a must". If Apple users make up > 50% of their user base, then I could agree with you to a certain degree, but even then it has it's uses beyond simply serving as your PC backup. It doesn't serve as a clean backup target for Windows or Linux either.

They advertise it on Buffalo CloudStor, which is a Pogoplug with a built in HD.
So it should work on a regular pogoplug.

It says powered by pogoplug... http://cloudstor.pogoplug.com/view you will see you account.... Look at http://www.buffalocloudstor.com/ expand productivity, you will see Time Machine Support.

I prefer HD enclosure being aluminum, also i think the cloudstor has its code on the HD instead of firmware, so if the drive becomes corrupt you cant just replace it. I prefer the System on a chip idea for this kind of appliance.

I dont know for sure which OS either uses. From what i see, the Pogo looks like a linux system on a chip. From what i have read the System software on the cloudstor is on the HD instead. You can read what you like in that phrase, perhaps its just the DDNS but i think its more that that. I think the bigger issue is AFP Support ( http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427 ) because i use a HFS Journaled Volume on my Pogoplug all of my computers (mac, windows, linux) can access it, but is not recognized as a potential timemachine volume.

Perhaps a change in MacFuse, a Pogoplug Firmware update or a combination of both is needed, i cant say for sure.

I dont own a Cloudstor, so i dont know IF TimeMachine actually works on it over the network , but if it does work over the network, per the apple support article it needs to have AFP.

As for the OS Cloudstor uses, I doubt its CE. But you will have to ask Buffalo if you if it matters to you. The only point about the OS loading from the HD is if the HD develops a issues, you loose not only the data on the drive but the OS as well. Which is why i prefer the System on chip idea for this function.

BTW... Here is another forum thread about this http://www.pogoplugged.com/forum/thread/11452/Adding-Mac-OS-X-Time-Machine-HF...

as well as....
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Main/PlugComputers

http://www.smallcloudbuilder.com/storage/reviews/345-buffalo-cloudstor-reviewed

I echo the interest in Time Machine support. I thought I had a solution that would not use up one of the few USB ports on my iMac but I have gone back to using FireWire. The problem is that my Bootcamp partition cannot see the NTFS partition. I think it would work if the OS could be tricked in to thinking the mounted drives were HFS+, or Time Machine could be tricked into recognizing the Pogoplug mounted drives. I tried the "defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1" terminal command but it did not help. I am reluctant to convert my PogoPlug Pro to a regular NAS because I like having the attached drives.