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atlgator
Aug 05, 2011Aspirant
Lion + Readynas Duo (beta) + Time Machine = FAIL??
Yohdah, I've been following all the blogs posts regarding Lion, AFP, and the Readynas Duo. What is unclear to me is if the two beta releases for the Duo have fixed Time Machine or not. For me it'...
pjc1
Aug 12, 2011Aspirant
@nyee: Time Machine can handle multiple machines' backups. Each sparsebundle has the machine name and hardware MAC address, so they're uniquely named, even if on the same share. (This is the same way a Time Capsule does it.) The one thing you lose by going to a single share is the ability to individually cap machines' space usage. Instead, they'll all grow until the Time Machine service hits its quota. (Unfortunately, things aren't especially pretty at that point if your machines have very different usage patterns, but that's due to Apple's design on the client side, and not a ReadyNAS-specific issue.)
@atlgator: Glad to hear that stopping/starting the TM service got it pop up on Bonjour again! A bit surprising, but glad you're able to back up again. Could you tweak the subject of your original post to mark your issue as resolved (or that it has a workaround)? I think the only pending issue on this thread is salvobeta's, and he already started another thread about that.
@atlgator: Glad to hear that stopping/starting the TM service got it pop up on Bonjour again! A bit surprising, but glad you're able to back up again. Could you tweak the subject of your original post to mark your issue as resolved (or that it has a workaround)? I think the only pending issue on this thread is salvobeta's, and he already started another thread about that.
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