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How to setup ReadyNAS 314 to work with a Mac?
Hi I just tried to setup my ReadyNAS 314 using the installation guide (ReadyNAS OS 6.2 Desktop storage Systems) that came with it. I have my ReadyNAS plugged in, power on and connected to my mac ...
Thanks for your reply. I was able to login to the admin page.
What's the difference between Private and Shared Time Machine? How much space should I allocate for a 1TB hard drive I would like to back up?
Can I just copy over files that I would like to back up as well? How do I do that?
How do you set up the backup button? Is this different from using the TimeMachine?
Does the TimeMachine write over old backups? I would rather that it didn't.
Private Time Machine is useful if you have multiple Macs and want to set a separate quota for each one.
Whereas with Shared Time Machine you set a quota of e.g. 2TB and that is a quota for one Mac individually, but also the collective quota for all the Macs backing up to the Shared Time Machine.
You should set a quota that is higher than the amount of data you are backing up. So if you are using e.g. 500GB on your hard drive then you would want a much higher quota than that or else you won't get much in the way of backup history.
The backup button can be configured to run backup jobs that you create on the NAS itself.
You can copy over files manually or run 3rd party software on your Mac that can backup to a network drive.
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