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Time Machine 2tb limit?
Hi! I tested the ReadyNAS Pro equipped with 6tb. We (ad agency) are planning to use it with TimeMachine to backup our desktop macs. I wanted to use the maximum capacity, which is 4607GB, for TM, b...
chirpa wrote: 2TB is the current limit. The filesystem on the NAS currently has a 2TB per file limit. Same limitation applies to regular files via CIFS/NFS/etc, even iSCSI targets.
How is a per-file limit relevant to TM? TM creates sparsebundle packages (a folder) that contain several files as segments representing the entire volume. Therefore, it would stand to reason that any given segment might be limited to 2TB, but how does that translate to the whole sparsebundle?
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