Making Time Machine work with the ReadyNAS

Blues wrote:

I should have remembered that there's only USB on the MBA. I expect that a restore of the MBA's hard drive is possible from TimeMachine. Perhaps you could copy your sparsebundle to a USB drive, boot from the DVD with the USB drive connected and see if it allows you to do a restore. Also, for my edification, in what version of the ReadyNAS OS did Time Machine support begin. I didn't think it was available yet? Thank you.

The recent betas have this feature, and the recently released 4.2.3 final for ReadyNAS Pro should have it too. I have not yet installed firmware that have the official support. You probably know that there has been a hack for over a year that allows you to do TM backups to a ReadyNAS. I am not sure if anyone has attempted a restore with a hacked TM backup. However, this is now a moot point since the official support for TM has come to the recent betas and now to the final for the ReadyNAS Pro.

I would still like Netgear to respond to this. You guys probably realize without me saying it that your ReadyNAS beats Time Capsule hands down. As an Apple investor I am saddened by that, but as a ReadyNAS aficionado for 3 1/2 years now, I am very happy for the ReadyNAS. The TM backup as an officially supported feature is a huge plus for ReadyNAS products, and this should really drive your sales up with Mac users. However, as I have mentioned before, we need to know that the TM restores are reliable enough so that we can lose the constant worry of how we are going to restore our Macs if they crash. So, do you guys think you can spend a couple days in your lab to test out TM restores, and then published instructions on how to do this? Not many people want to sacrifice their Mac to try TM restores at home before the hard drive actually crashes. However, if Netgear tests this out in the lab and publishes official instructions, I will tend to believe that in case of the catastrophic failure of my HD, my TM backups will save me.

Thanks!