RND2000 and backup of a USB disk

[bizet]

Hi all,
I would like to buy a RND2000 with a 1TB HD (there is a nice offer on amazon.it) but I still have some doubts.

I own a MB and I store ALL my photos on this HD so the main use case for the ready nas would be to act like a backup of all my photos.
How can I do that?
I'm sure I can use rsync to keep the folder that contains the photos in sync with the NAS but I would prefer to just plug the USB HD into the ready NAS and have everything backed up? Is it possibile?
Can I use the readynas as a timemachine server? If i got it right that's a feature offered by a recent firmware version. Right?

Thanks in advance.

Paolo

[joneric]

You can configure the backup button on the front to execute an rsync backup from your attached HD.

See the Programmable Backup Button section of this page:

http://www.readynas.com/?p=177

And yes, you can use the ReadyNAS as a Time Machine server.