Making Time Machine work with the ReadyNAS

sirozha wrote:

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.

So, I had the drive on an iMac fail yesterday and I can report that the ReadyNAS Time Machine backup looks just like a Time Capsule backup to a new Mac.

I replaced the drive on the iMac, booted using a Leopard OS DVD and after Leopard installed, it gave me the normal restore from backup options. I selected Time Capsule and the ReadyNAS appeared in the resulting list. Selected the NAS and entered the username "ReadyNAS" and password and it continued as normal.