Ah I see now. I don’t think Time Machine will back up a network drive to a local drive. You’d be better off connecting an external drive directly to the NAS drive and installing Time Backup as an app on the NAS.
Regards Sam <http://www.facebook.com/macambulance> <http://www.twitter.com/macambulance> <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/macambulance/> MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen ACMT +44 (0)7747778022 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 23 Aug 2015, at 11:58, Benjamin Phillips <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Sam, > > Thank you for your response. You can see from the screenshot a Time Machine > share has not been selected. Will this resolve the issue? I thought this > would be if I was using the NAS as a time machine drive. My goal is to back > up the contents from the NAS to a DAS connected to my iMac using Time Machine. > > Regards, > > Benjamin > > On Sunday, August 23, 2015 at 11:32:25 AM UTC+1, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: > Hi Benjamin > > In the File Services section of DSM check under Apple File Services that > you’ve got a share selected to use as the Time Machine share. > > Regards > > Sam > > <http://www.facebook.com/macambulance> > <http://www.twitter.com/macambulance> > <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/macambulance/> > MacAmbulance Ltd. > Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development > > Sam Mullen ACMT > +44 (0)7747778022 > in...@ <>macambulance.co.uk <http://macambulance.co.uk/> > www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> > MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration > number 8466597 > This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain > privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in > error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > >> On 23 Aug 2015, at 10:24, Benjamin Phillips <benjamin...@ <>gmail.com >> <http://gmail.com/>> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I have purchased a synology DS415+ NAS enclosure which I am using to store >> all my files after my DAS controller broke. >> >> Is there a way to get time machine to back up the NAS drive in addition to >> its internal hard drive of my iMac. When I had the files connected by DAS it >> had no problems doing this but now it is seen as a network device it does >> not want to include it. The NAS does come with back up options however I >> would prefer to use Time Machine if possible. >> >> Many thanks in advance. >> >> Regards, >> >> Benjamin >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to smug+uns...@ <>googlegroups. <http://googlegroups.com/>com >> <http://googlegroups.com/>. >> To post to this group, send email to sm...@ <>googlegroups.com >> <http://googlegroups.com/>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug >> <http://groups.google.com/group/smug>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug > <http://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > <Screen Shot 2015-08-23 at 11.54.39.png> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
