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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...
ChunkySocks wrote: I have updated the Firmware on the NAS to RAIDiator 4.2.25, my questions are:
- are the instructions in this thread to set up multi-Mac backup shares still applicable when using Mavericks?
- although not essential, can I 'take over' the Time Machine backups that are on the NAS from my previous macbook and continue using the same share and Time Machine configuration with my present macbook?
I didn't set it up completely new, but the TimeMachine shares still work for my Mavericks MBP. I also updated my MBP from 10.8 to 10.9.x and the Backups still run smoothly against the NAS - the only difference that I see with 4.4.25 is that the free space no longer shows the quota cap of the user but the total free space of the NAS.
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