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Wondering If Any Have Had Success With Time Machine To A NAS Drive
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1825525" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Paul, one clarification. When using a NAS through SMB, the format of the drive does not matter. That is one of the reasons TM uses sparsebundle format. (The other is for compression of the data, to speed up the process of transfer through the network.) AFAIK, sparsebundles can be stored on ANY format drive. I read that article you linked and I never did any of that. What I did was to mount the network drive in Finder and then go to SysPrefs/TM and point to the mounted drive. Done. TM detected that the drive was mounted remotely and did a backup creating the sparsebundle backup all by itself. I don't even know what the format is on the NAS (and I don't really care, it just works). The NAS does not, BTW, show up in Disk Utility at all as the NAS is not directly attached. But it does show in Finder.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1825525, member: 396914"] Paul, one clarification. When using a NAS through SMB, the format of the drive does not matter. That is one of the reasons TM uses sparsebundle format. (The other is for compression of the data, to speed up the process of transfer through the network.) AFAIK, sparsebundles can be stored on ANY format drive. I read that article you linked and I never did any of that. What I did was to mount the network drive in Finder and then go to SysPrefs/TM and point to the mounted drive. Done. TM detected that the drive was mounted remotely and did a backup creating the sparsebundle backup all by itself. I don't even know what the format is on the NAS (and I don't really care, it just works). The NAS does not, BTW, show up in Disk Utility at all as the NAS is not directly attached. But it does show in Finder. [/QUOTE]
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