Time Machine should work with a suitably configured NAS with a recent version of netatalk running. It is not my preferred route—I’d much rather access the NAS directly over the network and have the NAS performing snapshots either to a RAID or an external cloud storage service—but it should work just fine.
My advice is to keep with a wired network if you wish to use Time Machine. Depending on the nature and robustness of your wireless network, it might simply be that you are regularly corrupting your sparse disk images by being disconnected all the time. I’m still not entirely sure why Apple choose the sparse disk image format for network backups which are presumably attractive precisely because they are often free of wires, except that it might be convenient for the storage of all backup metadata. It’s not at all robust though, so you need to ensure you have good connectivity to the NAS. Of course, buying an Apple NAS that doubles as a wireless access point may or may not help with your particular network. If you still wish to use wireless but don’t have the means to set up backups on the NAS itself, then check whether or not Arq from Haystack Software supports the protocols or cloud storage providers that your NAS has. If, for example, your NAS has a built-in SFTP server, then you could use that to more reliably store hourly backups without continually needing to refresh your backup history. The downside to this approach is that the backups are then only accessible with a copy of Arq installed on a Mac and an encryption password. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
