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From: thepixelfreak on 20 Feb 2010 14:48 Any recommendations for Mac friendly NAS disk other than Time Capsule? Compatible with Time Machine a plus but not a requirement. I do have a Airport Extreme but I don't want to have to get a USB hub to add a drive to it. I've got a printer attached at the moment. thx in advance. -- thepixelfreak
From: nospam on 20 Feb 2010 14:53 In article <2010022011485916807-not(a)dotcom>, thepixelfreak <not(a)dot.com> wrote: > Any recommendations for Mac friendly NAS disk other than Time Capsule? > Compatible with Time Machine a plus but not a requirement. I do have a > Airport Extreme but I don't want to have to get a USB hub to add a > drive to it. I've got a printer attached at the moment. they all work, however, if they support afp, they'll work better than if it's just smb. only the time capsule is officially supported with time machine but there's an unsupported hack that will enable it, although trusting backups to something unsupported is foolish.
From: Tom Harrington on 20 Feb 2010 15:36 In article <2010022011485916807-not(a)dotcom>, thepixelfreak <not(a)dot.com> wrote: > Any recommendations for Mac friendly NAS disk other than Time Capsule? > Compatible with Time Machine a plus but not a requirement. I do have a > Airport Extreme but I don't want to have to get a USB hub to add a > drive to it. I've got a printer attached at the moment. I've heard good things about the Data Robot-- <http://drobo.com/>. It supports AFP so it integrates well with Macs. -- Tom "Tom" Harrington Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002 http://www.atomicbird.com/
From: Bob Harris on 20 Feb 2010 18:02 In article <2010022011485916807-not(a)dotcom>, thepixelfreak <not(a)dot.com> wrote: > Any recommendations for Mac friendly NAS disk other than Time Capsule? > Compatible with Time Machine a plus but not a requirement. I do have a > Airport Extreme but I don't want to have to get a USB hub to add a > drive to it. I've got a printer attached at the moment. > > thx in advance. A Mac mini running Leopard or Snow Leopard, with a huge external disk (Firewire preferred), such as a Drobo (which just happens to be my NAS setup). This is supported for Time Machine. There is also Drobo with the DroboShare networking attachment, which is suppose to have good Apple File Sharing support. Unsupported, but can be made to work. I've heard good things about ReadyNAS with respect to Apple File Sharing support, but I have never actually used one. Unsupported, but can be made to work. NOTE: I have had trouble with Time Machine and my MacBook, because I constantly put the MacBook to sleep, take it out of the house and then back again. If a Time Machine backup is in progress this disconnects the remotely mounted file system abruptly and every few months I get a corrupted Time Machine backups that does not seem to be fixable. If you are going to use a NAS for Time Machine backups (supported or unsupported), and you are going to be using a laptop that leaves the house a lot, then I would be careful. You might consider one of the utilities that can change the Time Machine backup schedule so that it is less likely to be backing up your laptop around the time you are most likely to take it out of the house. And then for all other times, make sure you stop any Time Machine backups in progress and manually dismount the remote file system. Bob Harris
From: Tom Harrington on 20 Feb 2010 19:06
In article <nospam.News.Bob-EAB4EC.18020220022010(a)nothing.attdns.com>, Bob Harris <nospam.News.Bob(a)remove.Smith-Harris.us> wrote: > If you are going to use a NAS for Time Machine backups (supported > or unsupported), and you are going to be using a laptop that > leaves the house a lot, then I would be careful. You might > consider one of the utilities that can change the Time Machine > backup schedule so that it is less likely to be backing up your > laptop around the time you are most likely to take it out of the > house. And then for all other times, make sure you stop any Time > Machine backups in progress and manually dismount the remote file > system. It can be inconvenient when I need to take my laptop somewhere while TM is in progress, but the "stop backing up" menu item gets it free pretty quickly. TM should automatically unmount the drive unless you already had it connected for some other purpose. -- Tom "Tom" Harrington Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002 http://www.atomicbird.com/ |