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Making Time Machine work with the ReadyNAS
The step-by-step how-to can be found here.
Well, I also got to try out restoring from backups! I pretty much did the same as 'billin' to restore. Have to say I think I'll be looking into something else other than Time Machine for backups; problems I've had:
- Last month, for some unknown reason, Time Machine simply started stalling forever when starting backups. After much searching, deleting Spotlight indices on the backup volume seemed to be the recommended remedy, which I did, and something else I think, plus some voodoo thrown in too to get TM working again.
- Restoring from a TM backup is a rather long ordeal. Install Mac OS, which took almost an hour; searching user accounts to restore, which took a while too and a lot longer than you'd expect; then the final restore took about 8 hours (about 70 GB of data).
- Restore didn't copy anything from /Applications, so I had to find the latest backup folder that had that then copy everything over manually.
- I suspect some other things may not have gotten restored either (some of my system settings are now different).
CCC doesn't work with ReadyNAS, but it appears SuperDuper or Chronosync may. Or maybe I'll just try 'ol rsync. Last drive that went out before this one I just had a CCC clone on a spare HDD in a USB enclosure--restoring was a simple, speedy (well, fairly, since Macs are a bit tedious to take apart) affair.
- Last month, for some unknown reason, Time Machine simply started stalling forever when starting backups. After much searching, deleting Spotlight indices on the backup volume seemed to be the recommended remedy, which I did, and something else I think, plus some voodoo thrown in too to get TM working again.
- Restoring from a TM backup is a rather long ordeal. Install Mac OS, which took almost an hour; searching user accounts to restore, which took a while too and a lot longer than you'd expect; then the final restore took about 8 hours (about 70 GB of data).
- Restore didn't copy anything from /Applications, so I had to find the latest backup folder that had that then copy everything over manually.
- I suspect some other things may not have gotten restored either (some of my system settings are now different).
CCC doesn't work with ReadyNAS, but it appears SuperDuper or Chronosync may. Or maybe I'll just try 'ol rsync. Last drive that went out before this one I just had a CCC clone on a spare HDD in a USB enclosure--restoring was a simple, speedy (well, fairly, since Macs are a bit tedious to take apart) affair.
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