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wicka
Jun 28, 2007


ConfusedUs posted:

To get the ball rolling, I figure I'll post my home backup scheme!

My primary storage for my home is a Synology NAS. All of my laptops/desktops (I have four in my home) back up to the NAS daily. The macs use Time Machine for this.

The NAS itself is backed up to an external harddrive every day and to the cloud once a week.

This gives me three layers of redundancy (NAS + EHD + CLOUD) for all my regular systems, and the NAS itself has two layers (EHD + Cloud).

how are you using time machine with a non-time capsule NAS?

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wicka
Jun 28, 2007



but my understanding was that time machine only technically supported time capsule, and that to use any other NAS or network share you had to enable unsupported network volumes. is that not the case? or is synology doing something tricky here?

wicka
Jun 28, 2007


ConfusedUs posted:

Frankly, it just works (lol), well enough that I've never questioned how. I didn't even know there was such a restriction. My professional focus is Windows backups.

looks like western digital has the same feature on their "my cloud" stuff. i wonder if that was an old restriction and something has changed recently.

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