Thank you Neil. Are you able to say what NAS you have and, apart from RAID choice, whether it was easy to set up on the Mac?
Thanks Adam > On 9 Oct 2020, at 2:15 pm, Neil Houghton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Adam, Hi Peter. > > Some experiences: > > On my main computer I use directly connected disks for TM backups and > Superduper clones - USB & FW respectively but since almost all my important > stuff is also in the cloud, on either Dropbox or OneDrive, I have TM set to > manual and just connect the drives when I need to do a backup - my thinking > being to avoid a power surge/lightning strike taking out both the computer > AND connected backups! > > However, I do use a NAS for TM backups of a second computer and a laptop. At > the moment these do not get a lot of use and, again, I do the YM backups > manually - but the TM network backup all seems to work OK. > > From memory, the trickiest bit was me deciding how to setup the NAS - to RAID > or not to RAID, setting up user permissions so different users had their own > space on the NAS, setting up a media server (as yet unused!) and then setting > up another space for the TM backups. However, I am known to complicate things > and I did want the NAS to fulfil several purposes! > > I would imagine that if you just wanted to use the NAS for TM purposes, and > used a simple RAID setup, you could have a good TM solution with protection > against a single HD failure in the NAS - still doesn't help if lightning > takes out the whole box! > > Just my musings - HTH > > > Cheers > > > Neil > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Adam > Lippiatt <[email protected]> > Reply-To: WAMUG <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, 09 October 2020 at 13:01 > To: WAMUG <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: TC Backups to a full disc drive > > Hi Peter > > Presently I run two drives connected to my iMac (one by Thunderbolt, one > by USB) one backing up a time machine backup and one using Carbon Copy Cloner > software to make another backup. I swap out one of the drives from time to > time and keep that drive at a separate location. > > I have only had one hard drive fail and that was the “fusion” drive in > this iMac. It was very very handy to have a backup to hand when the iMacs > drive was replaced. > > However, I would like to go wireless for backup, my only attempt being > just to add a usb connected drive to a Time Capsule (for a second backup to > the Time Capsule itself), but I found it to be too slow. > > One idea for a monthly meeting topic I would be interested in, is a home > network guru providing a guide to running wireless backups to multiple > backup drives and whether that requires / is better with a NAS (which I don’t > really understand) or via hard drives connected to a wireless router with a > fast USB connection. > > Adam > > > >> On 9 Oct 2020, at 12:26 pm, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Adam, thanks for that. What do you do instead for your backups? >> >> Pete. >> >>>> On 9 Oct 2020, at 12:07 pm, Adam Lippiatt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Peter >>> >>> That is good news. >>> >>> On a side note I gave up using hard drives connected via usb to the TC >>> because they were very slow to transfer data. I read somewhere that this is >>> because the USB port on the TC is slow speed. >>> >>> Adam >>> >>>>> On 9 Oct 2020, at 12:02 pm, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I just thought I would add my recent awareness of this. In the 10 years + >>>> of using the Apple Time Capsule (with 3 USB hub connected external drives) >>>> I hadn’t yet reached the point where any of the Macbook backups had >>>> reached a full state on their respective drives. My own MBP back up drive >>>> on the TC (a 2TB HDD) reached this state during this week and I waited >>>> anxiously for it to either have a hissy fit or proceed as anticipated and >>>> free up space by deleting oldest backup content. >>>> >>>> I am pleased to say the latter resulted - with a message popup which said >>>> it will delete oldest content to make way for new backup content. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> Pete. >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
