Update: using Time Machine on a network drive with Snow Leopard or Leopard

I now have much simpler instructions thanks to Jon who commented on my previous blog post. Forget all those icky complex command lines! Here's the simple way...

• download the CreateBackupVolume application from Jon's excellent backmyfruitup project
• run it - tell it how big to make the sparse bundle thingy
• a sparse bundle file then gets created on your desktop (the name of the file starts with your machine name)
  
• mount your network drive if its not already
  
• drag the sparse bundle onto your network drive (you can delete the local one)
  
• set TimeMachine to use your network drive
• wait :)

I've repeated the above now on 3 different macs including one old G4 and it worked like a charm each time. It seemed kinda faster than my previous Time Capsule too :)

Many thanks Jon! Using Time Machine with a network drive just got loads simpler!

Update: these instructions should work on any Mac with Time Machine, so it works just fine on Leopard too