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From: Arthur on 1 Apr 2010 08:19
On 31/03/2010 23:30, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>
> Maybe. Up until a week ago I had four Macs backing up onto a 300gig
> disk, but then I traded up a Mini for an iMac and had to squeeze a
> fifth on there - so I put a 1Tb disk in place (USB enclosure off an
> Airport Extreme).

Jaimie, do you find the USB disk off the Airport Extreme better than the
NAS for Time Machine? (I'm using my ReadyNAS for time machine backups
but will be getting an AE shortly.)

regards, Arthur
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 1 Apr 2010 09:31
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:19:40 +0100, Arthur
<arthursstuffforsale(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>On 31/03/2010 23:30, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>>
>> Maybe. Up until a week ago I had four Macs backing up onto a 300gig
>> disk, but then I traded up a Mini for an iMac and had to squeeze a
>> fifth on there - so I put a 1Tb disk in place (USB enclosure off an
>> Airport Extreme).
>
>Jaimie, do you find the USB disk off the Airport Extreme better than the
>NAS for Time Machine? (I'm using my ReadyNAS for time machine backups
>but will be getting an AE shortly.)

I was using the ReadyNAS as TM host for ages before it was supported,
no issues at all.

Then I ran a little short of space and wanted the 250gig that TM was
using, so when I got the Airport Extreme I added the spare USB drive
to it and ported the backups over. Better use of resources, since IMHO
there's little point in RAIDing TM backups.

That was literally a couple of weeks before the official ReadyNAS
support for TM came out, so I've never tried that beyong enabling it
and seeing it show up as an available target on a TM prefs pane.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
'The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human
mind to correlate all its contents' - H.P.Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 1 Apr 2010 09:34
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:31:52 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh
<jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:

>On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:19:40 +0100, Arthur
><arthursstuffforsale(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>On 31/03/2010 23:30, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>>>
>>> Maybe. Up until a week ago I had four Macs backing up onto a 300gig
>>> disk, but then I traded up a Mini for an iMac and had to squeeze a
>>> fifth on there - so I put a 1Tb disk in place (USB enclosure off an
>>> Airport Extreme).
>>
>>Jaimie, do you find the USB disk off the Airport Extreme better than the
>>NAS for Time Machine? (I'm using my ReadyNAS for time machine backups
>>but will be getting an AE shortly.)
>
>I was using the ReadyNAS as TM host for ages before it was supported,
>no issues at all.

Not true, now I think about it - there were issues getting the Macs to
use it to start with, but once the initial TM backup was in place it
all ran perfectly.

And that should be irrelevant now due to the official ReadyNAS support
for being a TM host.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
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lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores
the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them
into it in the first place." - Douglas Adams
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