Making Time Machine work with the ReadyNAS

sirozha wrote:

This is good stuff! Were you running the firmware on the ReadyNAS that had the official support for Time Machine backups? I figured so because you said that you had to supply the username ReadyNAS when you were restoring. I have never installed Mac OS X from scratch - I have only had Macs for a year, and I am way to busy at work to mess with my Macs' OS at this time. However, I am about to buy a new Macbook Air for my wife, and I may just install the OS on the new one from scratch when I buy it and then I want to try to restore the backup of her current Macbook Air to the new one. My questions: Is it possible to restore the backup made on one system to another system? Is there any good paper on how Time Machine backups work with Time Capsule? You mentioned that you had to first install the OS before you were able to restore your Time Machine backup from the ReadyNAS. Is there an option to restore the entire computer, including the OS, when you install a brand new hard drive, or do you HAVE to first install the OS? Once you installed the OS, how did you get to the "restore from backup" options? Is this a wizard that the installation of Mac OS runs automatically, or do you have to do something to launch it? In other words, since you seem to be the only one here who has recently restored from a Time Machine backup hosted on a ReadyNAS, do you mind writing up the sequence of steps in as much detail as possible? Thank you very much!

Yes, I am using 4.2.3 for the Pro, which is the current version with Time Machine support. I would look at the following KB article from Apple, which describes how to do lots of Time Capsule restores. Just do a global search on "Time Capsule" and replace with "ReadyNAS". Seriously!

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1177