nice and simple tutorial. I setup TM on the NAS and I was able to clean up my workspace by removing two USB units that I was using for TM Backup. I am using my Synology NAS more and more with every SpaceRex video that I watch. Thank you.
@ericp68906 ай бұрын
Thank you SpaceRex. The detailed and concise explanation from this video covers every single aspect of the Synology manual. Furthermore, the video is up to date as of early 2024.
@Steve_Flack3 ай бұрын
Thank you for the video. Always wanted to get the Mac backups onto the NAS. Easy and clear steps to follow.
@mywhitenoise_11 ай бұрын
I've been wanting to build a NAS for years, finally did it. Your guides have made set up a breeze, thank you!
@jonnewton21654 ай бұрын
Excellent walkthrough. I would have missed some things without this video. Concise, effective
@pascalgodichef66098 күн бұрын
Thanks a lot!!! It works perfectly. Without this video, I would have wasted a lot of time trying to figure out how to configure the NAS.
@jacopo8182 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tutorial. It would be great to see even the next step about how to use the backup to restore your Mac
@tornadotj205910 ай бұрын
Worked like a champ. I'm using a Mac again for the first time since System 6. I also set up Active Backup for Business, but after I see Time Machine work for a while I may remove it. Time Machine is going to be far more intuitive for my wife to use than the ABB. And yeah, ABB was a pretty lengthy install.
@Sleepingseamonkey Жыл бұрын
That third check box under SMB advanced settings became unchecked when I updated DSM in July (@7:50). Thanks for the detailed instructions!
@mrafayaleem Жыл бұрын
Your tutorials are excellent! Thanks for publishing these!
@orional1977 Жыл бұрын
Thanks. Much better guide than the one I used a few months ago.
@AaAa-je5eo7 ай бұрын
How to do "X" on a NAS? There's a SpaceRex video for that. 🦖 Thanks Will, seriously awesome content and production on all of your stuff. This channel is going to explode🚀
@roulette68 ай бұрын
Thanks for this tutorial. I overlooked quite a few of the SMB settings when I first tried to make this work (prior to seeing your video).
@phuket27539 ай бұрын
This was great, thank you. Good to have the walk-through. Makes you feel confident in the backup being there.
@jem8794Ай бұрын
Great video Will. Thank you so much for educating me and thousands of viewers.
@2kings3queens11 ай бұрын
Hey Will, Just changed retention settings on snapshots for TM & was able to reclaim some storage space, thank you for the information !!!
@myronmancan5 ай бұрын
Thank you. I setup Time machine like a billion years ago and it stopped worked, and my computer hard drive filled up. This really, really helped me. I could not complete this work and protect my production computer berfore your video.
@MichaelStrong01123 ай бұрын
I've set up Time Machine on my Synology a few times in different ways, including how you teach here. It starts out working well. Within a few weeks, I began having serious problems on my Mac, which traced back to my Synology Time Machine setup. I'm not interested in trying anymore. Just sticking with an external SSD. If I want to back that up on Synology, then I can do that.
@deanbrandon36157 ай бұрын
This is fantastic! Finally, I see how to set up the NAS folders, etc. so Time Machine can see the NAS for backup. Thank You. Why do they make it so difficult? I know there are so many features Synology has, but I don't need to actually fly the 747, I just want to recline the seat...
@guptatushar9 ай бұрын
Thanks, Will for this great video. It helped me to set up my TimeMachine backup properly.
@GuinnessSquirrel10 ай бұрын
Very well explained. Simple to understand. Thank you.
@GuessterS6 ай бұрын
Thank you. Superb teaching skills. Unmatched. Keep up the great work
@DarieeeАй бұрын
amazingly usefull stuff - thanks 🔥
@AlexKingCreative2 ай бұрын
So helpful dude. Awesome.
@MsTessG3 ай бұрын
Very helpful and easy to follow. Thanks! 🎉
@WayneNaylor25 Жыл бұрын
Will thank you for a excellent tutorial. I wanted to back up my wife's MacBook Pro using a network drive for a long time. This tutorial helped me tremendously. P.S. I watch your KZbin videos all the time.
@SpaceRexWill Жыл бұрын
Glad you like it man!
@rurimaja2 ай бұрын
This was great. Only thing I couldn't follow was the snapshots settings; can't find/figure out how to do that.
@TheTheatreOfCoD9 ай бұрын
Great video! I've fully set up my NAS with the help of your great content. I do have a question though, would you recommend backing up Time Machine shared folder via Hyper Backup? Thanks
@cesaralarcon2235Ай бұрын
Gracias por la información. Saludos desde Ciudad de México.
@MrMilio Жыл бұрын
Hey Will, thanks for you awesome videos! I have now a spare single HDD NAS on hand and wanted to make it an external backup NAS (at the home of my parents). Would be awesome if you make a video on it.
@aottke11 ай бұрын
EDIT: Just saw your request for forum questions instead of KZbin comments in another video. Headed over there, but leaving this in case someone else had the same issue and solved it somehow. 🙂 So, I can't get external drives to back up to our DS1821+ for some reason. The local computer backs up fine, but even though the external drive is not in the exclusion list, it does not add it in the backup when it runs. Just acts as though there's nothing there and finishes the backup successfully without that drive. It's formatted HFS+, but no clue why it won't back up to the Synology. On another similar setup for a friend, same thing. It also won't see her other APFS and one other HFS+ drive we're trying to get to back up to her DS1522+. This happened on past DSM 7.1 installs and also on the latest DSM 7.2 Update 3, for what it's worth. All settings are set up just as in this video. All drives are confirmed not to be in the exclusion lists. Any suggestions? (Separately, the only other issues we've had were the highly googled Synology+TM issues once backing up more than one Mac where we need to manually kill an SMB connection through DSM and retry a TM backup to get it to work. And that solves our problems there. But still no external drives being backed up).
@vacowboy756 ай бұрын
Well done. Pretty simple. Thanks.
@luisdiegosalas7 ай бұрын
I don't know what is happening, but I follow your instructions exactly and I still get and issue with available space after a number of TM runs. It is as if it can't delete older versions of files.
@jeffjsmith4 ай бұрын
That was a BIG help - thanks so much!
@petercdejong Жыл бұрын
Got it working with smb now. Thanks!
@dirkziegler95808 ай бұрын
In theory this should work. In practice it stopps working after several months of using TM. I don't know why, but I have to setup TM from scratch frequently to keep it working. Currently the TM-backup is that slow, that it would take weeks to get it completely done - in my home network! I wish TM would work better because it is an essential part of my backupstratgey.
@higpllc4 ай бұрын
Excellent video. Thank you so much!
@robertlord7911 Жыл бұрын
Thanks I've been looking for this and it was spot on! Much obliged. Question: if one has a USB drive attach to the NAS as a secondary TM backup is set up similar?
@Bmeri34 ай бұрын
Nice and to the point. Thanks!
@jonnyamos45478 ай бұрын
Thank you so so so much for this video! Amazing! I really want to say a special thanks!
@gossamer885 күн бұрын
My sparsbundle cannot be opened (corrupt?). Is there a way to make the backup a .backupdb structure instead?
@DrTarekahmad5 ай бұрын
Thanks for the perfect guide
@denniskruse45346 ай бұрын
in 2016 it worked with EXT4 on a DS214 for me though
@user-cl5bn6dx5q5 ай бұрын
Thank you sooooo much!! That war really helpful!!!
@jonasandero412418 күн бұрын
Thanks for a great guide, you saved me a lot of time!
@SpaceRexWill17 күн бұрын
Thanks!
@scottlawrence63966 ай бұрын
FYI - I had an issue whereby when timemachine started backing up then all other connections to share folders would be ejected.... took me a long time to figure out what was going on but finally managed to notice that in the File Services -> SMB Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Others the option for Disable Multiple Connections from the same IP address needed to be de-selected. Not sure if that is a default setting or I put in on at some point in the past. Everything appears to be working well now.
@a_mouse685811 ай бұрын
This is such a simple and elegant solution to backup of macs (especially for laptops and and/or users with bad backup habits!). But can you comment on how reliable writing to a sparsebundle is with mesh WiFi? I've had mixed results with this in the past, and wonder if the data integrity protection of the Synology SMB server makes it more viable now?
@rickmunn63052 ай бұрын
Thank you, it worked perfectly
@elijahgavrilov16866 күн бұрын
And what if I have several users on a mac? Does data of all users backed up?
@cushieaudio6 ай бұрын
G'day, I have been having nas issues since at least 2015 across 3 apple time capsules and now my synology I got a few years back. everyone keeps blaming each other (error 19 included) I think I am closing in on the prob it’s my smb connection. i follwed your great tut to a T and mine is set up just like yours. the only dif I can see is the 5 machines backing up are all in the one folder. I constantly have to start again when I either get error 19 or it taking so long to do it's normal back up it's hard to finish a single one in a day, and then it just gives up. I have unresolved tickets with apple. How do you access the snapshots to check? thanks!
@iSerce6 ай бұрын
Hey - Don't seem to have Snapshot Replication on my Synology DS216Play - Runniing Software 7.1.1
@jukimax11 ай бұрын
Thanks again from awesome tutorial!
@theruckman5 ай бұрын
Great info until the last "snapshot" part, my NAS told me "no LUNs" and "create a LUN" -any help on this?
@RYN988Ай бұрын
thank you so much!
@jakubduda Жыл бұрын
I just configured it on MacoOS 14 Sonoma beta, and now you can set storage limit for TM backup (when creating task on a Mac). But from what I can see is that you can't change it after the job is created.
@khi787ghid Жыл бұрын
Thank you, Will! Why do you enable checksums and how do you think they affect the performance of already very slow Time Machine backups? I'm assuming that Time Machine effectively edits small portions of the internal sparsebundle files, and thus btrfs will need to often recalculate the checksums. The official DSM manual is silent about this though. This is what I got from their support though: if you want to configure the Time Machine folder, you can enable the option of "Enable data checksum for advanced data integrity" but it is not necessary, I personally think you don't need to enable it.
@thecanyonsistersАй бұрын
Hello ! Thank you very much for the explanation, it was perfectly clear to me. I have started it and it recognizes all the disks and folders without problem. The only problem is that I started TM yesterday afternoon at 4:50 pm and now it is 8:44 am and it has not even reached 50%...is it normal that it is this slow??? It is a macbook air M2 2023 SD 256 gb,on a DS223J, 2 2TB disks Raid 1. . Thank you.
@MediSpring2 ай бұрын
Is there any solution putting backups into a cloud? I know, that iCloud doesn't work for macOS. But does anybody know a backup-storage option in the internet? thanks
@Papparazziby Жыл бұрын
It looks like SMB durable handles are disabled when the Synology Drive Server installs, it broke my Time Machine backups. Thanks for the tutorial!!!
@natalielaspisa45976 ай бұрын
This is super helpful! What happens if your laptop is telling you it could not back up “Macintosh HD” because it is nearly full. Is there a way around this?
@reviews2you5 ай бұрын
Have you had an issue when your shared Time Machine folder filled up that it would no longer back up to it? I've had this where instead of deleting old backups as it should it just says not enough space and won't back up. My main Mac has about 500GB of used space and I assigned a shared folder to it (and it alone) with around 2.5TB. I had recycle bin shut off (that's important). Once the folder was all but full I just got error messages and time machine wouldn't backup. I had to blast years worth of backups and start over, this has happened over a few macs over the years and Synology is never helpful with this issue. They blame apple and apple can't help with network backups. So I'm doing this again but no way to know if the issue has been resolved until the folder becomes full, makes it super sucky to rely on. Also, I know in mac OS 14.3 you can limit the size of your time machine backup from time machine settings. So if I have a 10TB usb drive now time machine will ask if I want to allocate all 10TB to it. I wonder if it gives this same option with the network drive? If so it may be wise to go back to using sinology's time machine option where all macs share one folder.
@waw4 Жыл бұрын
Hi Will! 2 questions- Q1. What's the purpose of the TM snapshots & how much storage will they take up? Q2. Will TM send a notification when it's used up all the space alloted or will it just keep chugging away, deleting the oldest backups?
@SpaceRexWill Жыл бұрын
So TM snapshots I setup as a ransomeware preventative. Having only a couple will take up a very small amount of space
@SpaceRexWill Жыл бұрын
Time Machine will just delete old versions once its out of space, but before that it will keep everything. I don’t think MacOS will tell you
@ruwn561 Жыл бұрын
@@SpaceRexWill it does tell you it’s running low on space, also it tells you if it hasn’t backed up to that disk in x days or hours etc.
@gugy688 ай бұрын
I am highly considering leaving behind my DS920+. For the second time in 6 months I lose my connection to my Mac and I can't back up. Such a weird thing because I still can connect to the other volumes but not the TM one. Contacting Synology is a headache and they usually can't solve the issue. If you someday can create a video with troubleshooting , that would be awesome. Great channel! @@SpaceRexWill
@GetsOne6 ай бұрын
Sorry to bother you. I am trying to reconnect to my time machine, and I am getting an OSStatus error 80 error for some odd reason. Does anyone know what this is?
@byrd203 Жыл бұрын
it does corrupt itself after several years of use I just had my moms l;laptop that refused to backup said backup error it was on an older network drive too but I moved that to a Synology from macos extended on old system to APFS SMB backup on the nas it backed up just fine
@notreallyme425 Жыл бұрын
When are we going to get Active Backup for Business support for Mac?
@SpaceRexWill Жыл бұрын
It is supported, but as of right now I still recommend Time Machine
@user-tc4vp3ji1m4 ай бұрын
thank you sir this was v helpful
@DrNiccoloGranieri7 ай бұрын
Apple added the ability to limit space used by Time Machine directly from macOS, so ext4 and ext3 users rejoice! You can follow this tutorial and just tweak that setting for last.
@faroukvisram Жыл бұрын
What’s the best way to backup iPhone or iPad? Synology photos backs up pictures it what about everything else?
@whya2ndaccount6 ай бұрын
That makes sense however under OS 10.11.6 The SMB share is not available as a drive location in Time Machine option. Any thoughts?
@kakistocrates Жыл бұрын
FYI, Active Business Backup doesn't work when using OCLP with root patches installed on older Macs running recent macOS versions.
@StudioPractice4 ай бұрын
Great video! Thank you very much. I guess I’m not using Btrfs, because I have no ability to set folder quota. Do you have any suggestions on any way to keep Time Machine from swallowing my disk?
@johnperkowski63577 ай бұрын
@SpaceRexWill, Thank you. I was able to implement everything except for "snapshots." That part had me lost. Is Snapshot something on the Synology or something in Time Machine or something else? How do I get to Snapshot and configure the settings as you recommend?
@nightrider083 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your efforts on synology, However, two of my synology, DS1515 AND DS916, just failed. Motherboard issues. On the other hand, I have WD EX4100, which has been running for over 10 years, which I don't like a lot due to software.
@alexpollock69326 ай бұрын
it didn't ask for a backup password, is that normal?
@JohnCLin-yo9yx6 ай бұрын
Thanks SpaceRex! I used DSM to set a size for my TM shared folder on my Synology. When I went to direct Time Machine to back up to that folder, after the question about encrypting backup, I was asked for a "Disk Usage Limit" (either none or custom). Is that different than my setting a size of the TM shared folder? How should I answer that question? (I'm using Sonoma 14.3)
@hahnfelt8 ай бұрын
Thank you for the tutorial - but you are wrong on one thing you said early on. With Time Machine it’s easy to get back any file I much like snapshots), you just enter the ‘Time Machine’ part of it in a folder and the you can go back in time and see how that folder was an hour, two, a day, a week or any date since you started - ande recover any file or the folder just how it was at that time.
@BartekWoszczynski7 ай бұрын
Hello! Thank you so much for this great tutorial! I followed all of the steps (I believe) however for the pas 24h it just shows "connecting to the back up disc". Do you have any ideas what I could have done wrong?
@mohammadirfan891011 ай бұрын
Many thanks for your all amazing Videos... I have NAS Storage, RAID 5 configured with 1 volume, Right now data is 43% only but issue is after 10 or 15 days storage will be reaching to 100%, then it will be auto refresh to 43%, My concern is... Between the process getting WARNING ERROR. Please suggest me how fix it. Don't want to reach 100% Unnecessary
@03Jan09Ай бұрын
Question: If a Time Machine backup is no longer needed, do we just right-click delete the file in File Station?
@03Jan09Ай бұрын
Done
@herokme011 ай бұрын
Is there a downside to using time machine to backup macos AND using active backup for business to backup macos? besides it just taking up more space? i cant decide which one i want to use
@NoBrassLeftBehind9 ай бұрын
I can access every folder in my Synology NAS no problem it instantly shows up in my location section of finder but I can't get the Time Machine shared folder to mount as easily as you do. I can open that folder through finder but Time Machine is having a hell of a time mounting it and initiating even the first backup. please help!
@kevinz88679 ай бұрын
Thanks for the very helpful video, Will! TLDR: turned on AFP and old MBP saw the TM drive I created. Are there any long term affects of having AFP on? should I toggle it on and off to backup wife's MBP? I have two 2017 iMacs and they had no issues configuring with SMB per your tutorial and I got them going, thanks! I followed along as I am a total noob on this, I know nothing so I followed to the T. So when you said not to use AFP I was like "OK, but I don't know anything about it or why won't use..." Then I went to setup my wife's ooold MBP. It's running 10.11.6 El Capitan. I couldn't get your steps to work when trying to add the TM-MBP on her end of the setup. I figured out her mac is using AFP, so I tried enabling that on the DSM and there were the drives. Her MBP is only 250GB and she HARDLY uses it. It's mostly her school files (she's a teacher). Should I just toggle AFP on and off to manually run backups or let it do it's thing?
@organismseven3700 Жыл бұрын
I did not get the option to "Enable shared folder quota". That whole dialog window does not appear. Do you only get this option if you are using the Btrfs file format? Info: DS214play DSM 7.1.1-42962 Update 5
@CarlosGranier Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much Will. I recently deleted my entire DS2415+ (because it was setup with ext4) and reinstalled it as btrfs. After upgrading, Time Machine no longer worked, giving me a "The selected network backup disk does not support the required capabilities" error message. No amount of googling came up with a working answer. However, going through your video must have re-set some vital options and now everything works again.
@akram1402 Жыл бұрын
Thank you, is it possible to backup iphones to nas?
@HighRockmike7 ай бұрын
Hi Will, if the TimeMachine backup folders are created within the main volume, and the main volume has snapshots, do the Time Machine backup folders need separate snapshots?
@Archie106TV11 ай бұрын
thank you
@DigiDriftZone11 ай бұрын
If you're strictly on Mac and you're using timemachine, seems Synology may be a bit overkill? - I'm thinking a raspberry pi with an external 2 bay caddy (raid1) and you get basically the same, or am I missing something?
@eddydupuis2878 Жыл бұрын
Hi , content is awsome and well explained , but for the people like me , the talking speed is very fast , i love your comtent it help me alot , please would be better ( for some of us ) if you are speeking a bit slower . Thanks and i still follwing your channel .
@tomtommes1050 Жыл бұрын
Hi Will, thx a lot for the tutorial! Unfortunate I can't run a Time Machine backup from outside (connected via VPN), because Time Machine can't find the NAS. What I'm doing wrong here?
@maxbarko8717 Жыл бұрын
I stopped using TimeMachine Backups and switched to Active Business Backup. If you have several Macs the NAS is constantly busy with hourly TM backups as you can’t change the timing. I also often had to increase the dedicated size as TM wasn’t running because it indicated not enough space.
@IntoxicatedVortex Жыл бұрын
This is why you buy yourself a Layer 3 switch to enable LCAP bonding. The bond will enable to NAS to spread the network load across the 2, 3 or 4 network port you assign to it. Just adding 2 network ports into a bond will halve your congestion. That or/and upgrade to 10GbE. I don't see how Active Backup changes anything other than allowing you to reduce the frequency else throttling the bandwidth use. I'm not a big fan of the latter as throttles only slows the process down and you'll be congested just the same. In newer versions of macOS there is the option to change backup frequency. In older versions you can use Terminal to edit a preference file. A simple web search should give it to you. As for the space errors… most likely its a configuration error at the NAS end where you didn't to the permissions and/or quotas correctly. If you are in fact running out of space there's only one fix for that no matter what software you're using to backup and that is to go with larger storage. You need to be mindful that TM is pretty dumb in a lot of way. The clever use of exclusions goes a long way.
@maxbarko8717 Жыл бұрын
@@IntoxicatedVortex Thank you for your explanation. But it is way too complicated for me. As far as I can tell, Active Business Backup works just fine.
@07GoldWinger Жыл бұрын
I followed your tutorial twice and my Mac Book Air still says “No Available Time Machine Destinations”. Even though my Mac Mini found it without any trouble.
@BBoyMate9 ай бұрын
Hello, I have same problem. Time Machine doesn't show any disk to use it for backup. Can someone help with it?
@jigsound11 ай бұрын
Have you got experience with Carbon Copy Cloner? I'm using both it and Time Machine to back up the boot disk image and select folders and drive content respectively. - Eero
@nakcarikayu7 ай бұрын
ive just updated my mac to sonoma and had to upgrade my CCC too. Currently doing a bit of research on best practices for using ccc on a nas. Just got the DS224+ after using DS212 and hoping to do all my cloning and TM backups straight to the NAS. How's CCC on nas working for you so far? Any gotcha's i should take note of?
@mmdday Жыл бұрын
compression definitely does help. By default macOS doesn't use compression on the sparse bundle it creates Also, the official synology instructions use a quota'd user account instead of assigning a quota on the shared folder. What's the pro/cons of each?
@IntoxicatedVortex Жыл бұрын
The reason why Synology suggests quotas on the user account (I personally do it via quotas set on groups) is because the assumption is that you might have 100 people making backups and you're not going to make 100 shared folders. Nor do you want to be seeing 100 options in TM system preferences when you're trying to select the right destination. If you are setting the quota via the shared folder quota then each user will create a TM backup disk image the size of the shared folder. At some point they'll all run into each other. By doing it via a user you can set each user to have a smaller than the folder size… and you don't have to set the folder size. Its also a lot less management. For instance, the way I do it is to create a single TM shared folder. Then create groups like TM-256G/TM-512G/TM-1T. Each user will be in one of those groups that matches the SSD size of their computer. Each of those groups then gets a 1.5x multiple (or other) TM size set via their group. So users in the TM-256 groups will each get a 768GB TM size. If you have multiple NAS in multiple locations, its then really simple to set it in a single place via an LDAP group. From my perspective the choice is an ease of management question more than functionality question. So long as your Mac is given the right size of what the TM disk image should be you'll get the right thing. PS You can refine the size of network TM backups quite a bit if you think a little bit about the method you would typically recover data. That is, will you use TM or will you use a snaphot (or other)? If you would never do a bare metal recovery and your mail server is Synology MailPlus Server/Synology Mail Server are you going to use TM or a snapshot to rover mail? If you're going to use the snapshot, why would you care to backup ~/Library/Mail? No bare metal recovery… when you only need to worry about /Users from the outset. Once you're reducing the TM size requirements like this you can happily have a 1x multiple on the quota size and it will also minimise network traffic.
@mmdday Жыл бұрын
@@IntoxicatedVortex thanks this is really helpful. One question though: if multiple users are using the same shared folder, will they be able to read or write the backups of another user? I can potentially see a problem of a user clobbering over the backups of another user.
@IntoxicatedVortex Жыл бұрын
@@mmdday No… each will be distinct. If you look into your TM destination folder in File Station when using multiple computers to backup to it you will see computer01.sparsebundle, computer02.sparsebundle, computer03.sparsebundle etc etc. Each of these will be distinct to the computer name and the disk image itself will be tied to the UUID of the computer. This Apple does because they know to keep network backups unique and separate. And if someone tried to restore from someone else's backup (which is possible when selecting a source for a recovery) you would still need the password for that TM backup.
@dave-xe6pc Жыл бұрын
@@IntoxicatedVortexThis was very helpful and makes a lot of sense to keep a single top level directory for all Time Machine back ups on the local network, then control the user quota based on group permissions. I mirrored your implementation. Thanks!
@HoekNoot Жыл бұрын
Hello Will you use Safari in the video. May I ask how you get the little windows of website in Safari ? You have your NAS in big window and on the left I see KZbin your forum in little box. Is this an extension ?
@SpaceRexWill Жыл бұрын
Those are built into safari! Called pined tabs. Really easy you just drag a tab to the left and it uses it
@HoekNoot Жыл бұрын
@@SpaceRexWill great thx for reply. Love to see your videos
@iangonsal11 ай бұрын
Will I've been addicted to your videos since I bought my DS423+ I just tried to restore from a Time Machine back up but failed. During the restore process a password is required to access the backup on Synology. My DSM password achieves this but a password is again requested to access the sparsbundle. But no luck ? Any clues ?
@SpaceRexWill11 ай бұрын
So just to check, that second password is likely the encryption key you setup when making the first Time Machine backup. Without that password you will not be able to decrypt the backup. This was a password you set in MacOS
@iangonsal11 ай бұрын
Thanks so much Will I tried a few of my favourites; but that’s what I was afraid of. Nothing to do with Synology@@SpaceRexWill
@melmyfinger11 ай бұрын
Super helpful! Question from someone who is new to NAS: if I were to get a NAS *strictly* for Time Machine backups, what would the benefits be for getting one with 2 or 4 bays? Could I have each one be its own Time Machine drive? Or would one be for Time Machine and the others are redundant copies?
@christiansalhofer3711 ай бұрын
Merci !
@SpaceRexWill11 ай бұрын
Wow! Thank you so much!
@crapweasel1710 ай бұрын
Whoa! You lost me when you jumped to Snaphots without explaining what they are and how to get to the settings for them. Otherwise very helpful.
@qaszim20126 ай бұрын
He has a separate video explaining all that bud if you still wondering
@TheJerknoid5 ай бұрын
Think of a snapshot as a “version” of the backup. For example, if there is 1 backup per week for the past 3 weeks, that means there are 3 snapshots backed up.