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ReadyNAS solution for small Mac based design studio.
Hi, We are a small print design studio currently running 5 macs using OSX 10.9, being served files by OSX server (on a mac mini). However we are having serious problems with the system where the ex...
Performance is great with Macs.
Your Macs see it as a big network drive. For backups it doesn't matter to your Mac whether the volume is 2.7TB or 11TB (other than of course you can't exceed the TM quota or free space). As for backing up the NAS itself well another NAS would probably be the best way to go when backing up this much data.
Either connect an external disk to your Mac and copy your data across your network or connect the USB disk directly to the NAS and use e.g. a backup job to copy the data from the USB disk onto the NAS. I would go with the former, but that's personal preference.
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Your Macs see it as a big network drive. For backups it doesn't matter to your Mac whether the volume is 2.7TB or 11TB (other than of course you can't exceed the TM quota or free space). As for backing up the NAS itself well another NAS would probably be the best way to go when backing up this much data.
Either connect an external disk to your Mac and copy your data across your network or connect the USB disk directly to the NAS and use e.g. a backup job to copy the data from the USB disk onto the NAS. I would go with the former, but that's personal preference.
Welcome to the forum!
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