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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...
OKAY, it is working, thx for the awesome howto. :)
I ended up deleting the users again, deleting my old TM drive from the Mac Pref (I think it was the problem), redoing the whole process and as I type, 2 Mac are TM'ing into the Ultra 6. Joy. ;)
Note : You can just activate Time Machine backup on the NAS and assign 1 or 0 size, it doesn't matter. Only the size for the user will matter. Cool thing is it seems you can change it on the fly.
I ended up deleting the users again, deleting my old TM drive from the Mac Pref (I think it was the problem), redoing the whole process and as I type, 2 Mac are TM'ing into the Ultra 6. Joy. ;)
Note : You can just activate Time Machine backup on the NAS and assign 1 or 0 size, it doesn't matter. Only the size for the user will matter. Cool thing is it seems you can change it on the fly.
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