Hi Kevin. I looked in to this a while back.
It's too bad about its limitations, as Time Capsule would be great for this task. It's an all-in-one appliance for most home-server tasks: router, wireless access point, print server, and simple NAS. If it could work as an FTP server, and could work reliably as a file server, then it would cover everything. It only has one internal drive, but you can get the drive redundancy by attaching an external drive to its USB port, and it will mirror the internal drive to the external. The main problem for me, which I'm sure that you've encountered, is that the router portion sucks. It is missing lots of features that are standard on most other routers now, but the one that I absolutely can't live without is quality of service control. Without QOS, voice over IP and games can't get stable performance. Any other network service can momentarily suck all of the bandwidth, and cause your call to break up, or your game to freeze up. Of course, you can disable the router function, and attach it to your existing router, but, as you've discovered, without the router functions, you're much better off financially to buy a NAS and cheap print server. Anyway, about how to get your NAS to work. The NAS will work if it can do two things. First, you have to be able to format the drives as Mac HFS journaled. Time machine depends on features in the HFS files system in order to handle its incremental backups. Second, as far as I understand, the NAS needs to be able to support AFP. I can't remember the reason at the moment, but I remember reading that, while the Mac can connect to NFS and SMB shares, Time Machine can't. I've seen some NASes now listing Time Machine support specifically. Looking for that on the spec would be your safest bet. Some of them even list that they'll work as an iTunes server (hosting your library). You still should try Googling for more info, though. Bryan -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Shaw Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 7:34 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: NAS and Time Machine Similar to Time Capsule, but not an Apple product. The drive will show up as a standard disk in Finder, but I am wondering if Time Machine will do automatic backups to that drive. Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
