Pile of Dross

• It won’t do automated backups if the power cord isn’t plugged in or the disk isn’t mounted
• Its picky about mount points, so if you’ve switched from wired to wireless (or vice versa) with out unmounting, check that the backup disk is mounted in the expected directory under /Volumes
• sudo lsof -p gives some idea of what its actually poking at
• backupd-helper can be run from a terminal to force a backup now if your Time Machine dock icon doesn’t seem to do anything

Oh and complete unrelated (because I’m not using the unsupported network backup feature, not at all, whatever gave you that idea) netatalk on debian doesn’t work with Leopard, as Leopard is picky about the authentication.

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