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TennantSmith
Jan 06, 2015Aspirant
Time Machine when you're not home
Hello ! First of all, I would like to say that I'm French and sometimes my English is not excellent, sorry if I do english mistakes... I have to backup my Mac with Time Machine, I know how to do i...
mdgm-ntgr
Jan 06, 2015NETGEAR Employee Retired
TennantSmith wrote:
Then if I set up a different Time Machine module, it will automatically save my datas on it. But when I go back home, does the different backups sync with the NAS ?
Backups to e.g. a USB disk wouldn't get synced back to the NAS. Your Mac would do a separate backup to the NAS when you are back at home if the NAS is in your list of TM backup destinations.
TennantSmith wrote:
I've read somewhere that when the system used for Time Machine isn't accessible it automatically creates the backup directly on the Mac. Do you know if it's true ?
That's called MobileBackups
TennantSmith wrote:
If yes, does those backup sync with the NAS at home ?
Not sure about that.
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