How to use your NAS with Time Machine

[sodium]

...How seamless is the Time Machine support?

It's announced on the arm systems (ts410 included) and in beta on the intel NAS's
But my production machine is a intel NAS (509) so I can no test this and wait for the 3.2.0 software to come my test 410 NAS...

[sodium]

Things are going fast
Just received notice the 3.2.0 1212 release for the 509 is on the ftp servers... (with timemachine support)
so I'll upload the fw soon (I think I have some time on Thursday) and you'll see my findings here

[rweinschenk]

I'm looking forward to your results.

What is your system configuration?

[sodium]

I'm looking forward to your results.

What is your system configuration?

TS509Pro with raid5 (3 disks)
TS410 with raid1(2 disks)
2 Mackbook Pro's
Gbit network(2 switches)

PS I'll update the 509 tomorrow...

[Rogier]

I described some errors with TimeMachine here: viewtopic.php?f=142&t=23573

[sodium]

@Rogier as I described in many other replies... do NOT connect to a nas with user admin... it's not a user for use -- it's only there to administer the nas (and do not use guest either) learn how to create a user and how to fix rights problems...

see viewtopic.php?f=30&t=23310

my 2 cents

[Rogier]

Everything works when I disable the new TimeMachine function, and the problems are still there when I create another user. Do you have more suggestions?

[sodium]

Done, everything works as expected (and blazingly fast NAS (burst speed on file copy) -> macbook : 615 mbit/sec, and from the mackbook to the nas : 586 mbit/sec on a 40Gbyte file)

did you create the user TimeMachine on your Mac and gave it the password you entered in the gui? (and did you make it an administrator)

[thunderace1k]

I have to setup a Time Machine backup in a small Mac (3 units) network.

As I understand, every Mac will share the same Time Machine share on the TS-439, where I will set a quota of 1 TB.
But is there a way to limit the amount of disk each of them will use?
However, I think one might fill the share... and leave the others backupless.

[sodium]

I have to setup a Time Machine backup in a small Mac (3 units) network.

As I understand, every Mac will share the same Time Machine share on the TS-439, where I will set a quota of 1 TB.
But is there a way to limit the amount of disk each of them will use?
However, I think one might fill the share... and leave the others backupless.

Mery Christmas

Yes mac1 uses user backup1 and on the nas use a new share for TMbackup1 and set a quota at the same size as the supplied size of the sparsebundle and so on...

this shoud do the trick -- but I've read reports that the supplied size of the sparsebundle file is enough to limit the size of the TM backup

[thunderace1k]

Yes mac1 uses user backup1 and on the nas use a new share for TMbackup1 and set a quota at the same size as the supplied size of the sparsebundle and so on...

this shoud do the trick -- but I've read reports that the supplied size of the sparsebundle file is enough to limit the size of the TM backup

But on the Qnap, there is no way to create TMbackup1.
The nas automatically creates the TimeMachine user and the TMBackup share with a total quota, and that's it.

"Note that all the Time Machine users share the same network share for this function"

And how do I create TMbackup1 ?

Thanks.

[sodium]

read my page on the QNAP wiki how to setup this http://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/How_to_setup_ ... me_Machine

and you have to extend the above info with http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php? ... 9044531695

[AJAXX]

Hi,
I have just bought a TS-419P and is for the first time trying to run Time Machine, with first time i mean both on a QNAP and Time Machine as i am a new Apple user.

I just want to check if, with the latest firmware, and Snow Leopard the setup in this thread still apply. I did try to enable Time Machine support in Qnap admin but it seems like TM does not find the drive.

As i am not very skilled in this i wonder if someone can point me to a "simple" guide or should i use the one in the beginning of this thread?

[sodium]

nope do not use this thread... enable the TM from the gui

but you still have to do point 6 (Enable non-TimeCapsule disks for TimeMachine. ) from the manual http://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/How_to_setup_ ... me_Machine

[wlk95617]

There is no need to do all of these things, just upgrade the NAS to the latest firmware and everything will be done automatically. QNAP has made a lot of improvements in the latest firmware update and more people are able to use Time Machine w/o problems.