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Time Machine: Setup on and restore from a NAS device
Authored by: MediaPlex on Nov 10, '09 09:22:14AM

Hello. I have two NAS drives @ 1GB each (Linksys NAS200). Its formatted via the NAS, so its not NTFS or FAT or even HFS/+, etc. Not sure what it is but it has journalling set ON. One drive is my wife's and one is mine. We have two Windows PCs and one iMac (10.6.2). We currently back up the Windows PCs via Acronis to each of our respective drives We both share the iMac with each our own user account. What I'd like to do is set up Time Machine to back up the entire iMac drive to "my" NAS drive (DISK2) on the NAS but I have some questions first: Will this overwrite my Acronis backups? (will Time Machine use the entire DISK2 or will it use the particular folder I tell it to?) Does it matter that its not HFS or HFS+? Are there any other concerns about "sharing" this one particular NAS drive my Windows backups and the iMac's Time Machine?

Thanks!



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Time Machine: Setup on and restore from a NAS device
Authored by: everkleer80 on Nov 10, '09 01:33:44PM

In answer to your question, you should be able to do this and it should not affect your existing data, but as others are mentioning, this is not advisable if you care about having a safe, reliable backup for your Mac. So you are only debating between this solution and having no backup at all, then I'd say yes this is possible and will be better than nothing. (See my comment below.)



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