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ezlotogura
Nov 08, 2014Aspirant
Problem with Yosemite?
I just upgraded a few days ago and now my time machine will not even recognize the drive, let alone back up to it. I saw people having issues with cloud sync or something and Yosemite, but I am just ...
StephenB
Nov 10, 2014Guru - Experienced User
Performance on a gigabit network is almost 10x faster than direct USB backup on the NV+ (USB backup using NTFS format is about 3 MB/s on the NV+, you can get ~20 MB/s over a gigabit network).
If the PC is on and the USB drive is shared you can schedule backups with frontview.
Another approach is to use a PC backup program to pull the data from the NAS. My backups to PC drives use robocopy scripts on the PC, which are scheduled. I schedule them by adding them as a postprocess to the acronis backup jobs already running on the PC.
My setup is Windows of course, but a similar approach with Mac should also work.
If the PC is on and the USB drive is shared you can schedule backups with frontview.
Another approach is to use a PC backup program to pull the data from the NAS. My backups to PC drives use robocopy scripts on the PC, which are scheduled. I schedule them by adding them as a postprocess to the acronis backup jobs already running on the PC.
My setup is Windows of course, but a similar approach with Mac should also work.
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