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k4heines
May 06, 2016Guide
Need some advice, overall backup strategy, CCC and TM not working wireless or wired RN104
I've tried many things, but am still not getting successful backups after 6 months. RN104 with 4 Toshiba 4TB drives meant for NAS systems, OS 6.4. For household use with 2 Windows PC, 2 Macs. Fo...
meverz
May 09, 2016Apprentice
Yeah, I have been having the same issues with TM backups of my MacBook over wireless. As far as I can tell, it seems to work fine via ethernet to my RN104, but when backingup over wireless the backup becomes corrupt.
I also have a Mac mini which TM backiups to the RN104, and I don't have a problem with them (a wired conection, with wirelss ALWAYS off), so it obviously is a problem with TM over wireless. Although I can TM backup from my MacBook TO the Mac mini with no issues (even over wireless). When the TM Backup of my BackBook on the RN104 gets corrupted, I delete it and copy the MacBook TM Backup from the Mac Mini across, and it all seems to work fine.
I have just installed Arq (arqbackup.com) on my MacBook, using it to backup to the RN104. I have only in the past few days got it set up properly, and it seems to be working fine. It can take some fiddling to get set up - it can backup via SFTP (which I found out is NOT the same as FTPS), which requires enabling root SSH access. The first time I got the path wrong, and quickly filled up my OS partiton, but I think i have got it sorted now. It's still in the trial stage, I'll reevaluate when my 30 day trial period is up. Arq is also available for windows, so you can use the same program for both.
I'm not sure why CCC isn't working. I use (the very similar) SuperDuper, and I have not had any problems backing up to a network drive. Although I haven't yet tested rolling backups, I mainly use it to store a clone of my Hard Drive before major installations (bootcamp, OS Upgrades, OS reinstall etc) in case something goes wrong.
k4heines
May 15, 2016Guide
Thanks for the reponse!
I have seen many separate accounts of wireless backups altogether being unreliable. Reference this article.
Yet, I have hope that I can get CCC to work. Glad to hear SuperDuper is working for you. What the approximate total size of what youre backing up with SuperDuper to the network drive?
How is Arq working so far? Are you backing up to a folder on your NAS, while connected via SMB? Or are you using SFTP? SFTP is intriguing to me, as you could presumably backup computers to your NAS from outside of your home network. I like the simplicity of using the same program for Mac and Windows!
- mdgm-ntgrMay 24, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
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