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How-to: Setup multi-Mac backup shares with quotas. Easy.
Over the last couple years, I've been backing up each of my Macs to the default ReadyNAS Time Machine share. It's been OK, aside from having to hack my sparse bundles to stop them from increasing in s...
Thanks for writing this guide, it appears to have worked; at least, I set-up my g/f as a user with a 500GB allowance and her initial back up via TM is progressing as I type.
Am finding that the speed of writing to the ReadyNAS Ultra 2 is a little on the slow side at <10MB/s but that is a separate issue to this topic as I've been experiencing the same speed when copying music files across from my laptop as well so will look into that separately.
My experience in setting this up was that all went smoothly. I set up user accounts for both myself and my g/f on the ReadyNAS however there was a slight hitch when I wanted to check the username that I had used in file .AppleVolumes as I wasn't sure if I had used correct capitalisation on one of them and found that every time I tried to connect via AFP in Finder with the username & p/w that I'd set up for the account, I got a "Connection denied" error message. Re-booting the NAS and my laptop didn't fix it and I was only able to connect using my Admin login & p/w, navigate to the home folders of the respective user and open up the .AppleVolumes file and check. After disconnecting, I was then able to connect via AFP in Finder with the respective user names I'd set up.
Just to add, if you would rather save bashing in some terminal commands to reveal/hide hidden files in Finder, then Unhidden is a great piece of freeware that makes the process as quick as a click of a mouse button:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/38136/unhidden
Am finding that the speed of writing to the ReadyNAS Ultra 2 is a little on the slow side at <10MB/s but that is a separate issue to this topic as I've been experiencing the same speed when copying music files across from my laptop as well so will look into that separately.
My experience in setting this up was that all went smoothly. I set up user accounts for both myself and my g/f on the ReadyNAS however there was a slight hitch when I wanted to check the username that I had used in file .AppleVolumes as I wasn't sure if I had used correct capitalisation on one of them and found that every time I tried to connect via AFP in Finder with the username & p/w that I'd set up for the account, I got a "Connection denied" error message. Re-booting the NAS and my laptop didn't fix it and I was only able to connect using my Admin login & p/w, navigate to the home folders of the respective user and open up the .AppleVolumes file and check. After disconnecting, I was then able to connect via AFP in Finder with the respective user names I'd set up.
Just to add, if you would rather save bashing in some terminal commands to reveal/hide hidden files in Finder, then Unhidden is a great piece of freeware that makes the process as quick as a click of a mouse button:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/38136/unhidden
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