![]() ![]() Not the most intuitive system to set up but if you're looking for a commercial supported solution this is probably the one but could be rather expensive. I used it successfully with a network of 3 PCs and it was reliable so long as all the clients had static IPs. So far other than custom roll your own rsync the only real solutions I know of are:īacula - open source backup that has a Mac client but requires some work to install since you have to build the Mac client from source, not what your typical IT person will want to doīackupPC and Zamanda can also backup your Mac if they have ssh access to your machine, I've used BackupPC for Linux systems and it works okay but was a little bit high maintenance to set upĮMC Retrospect - originally a Mac only product from Dantz who was bought by EMC a few years back. It basically requires your users to leave their laptops at work, on and over night. Ditto for a Windows Home Server (HP) with TimeMachine support - well actually slightly different since I couldn't get more than one client to connect to it.Īnother problem with TimeMachine is if you a business that believe in security and has your users encrypt the home folders then TimeMachine only backs up when they are logged out - which in a typical office environment is almost never. I have tried a Netgear NAS with TimeMachine support turned on - works, but same problem. I've seen that there are procedures to create a limited size sparse bundle for each machine but that doesn't stop them all trying to hammer the TimeMachine at the same time. Any more and it is continuously hanging up or bogging down the network to the point where no one is getting backed up ever. My experience with TimeMachine backups for a small business with around 10 Macs has been very poor, basically Apple's product just can't handle this configuration, its made for one or two machines on a home network. Not a QNAP user yet but seriously considering a rack mount pro version. So is it just a way of one computer comparing files from two locations and copying if needed? Or is it a rsync client on one computer communicates with an rsync agent on another, and between them decide what to copy?Įnable backup from a remote server to the local hostĪllow remote Rsync server to back up data to NASīut none of the rsync-based mac software mentions a port at all.Ĭan anyone share their non-TM successful backup strategies from Mac to NAS please? I realise there's probably a simple-ish way to do it via terminal rsync commands, and I'm somewhat familiar with basic terminal use, but I DO NOT want to do that. The rsync server in the NAS seems to indicate a connection port 873 is used, which implies that it's a client > server-agent relationship. I see some of the Mac backup software is based on rsync, but it seems to be orientated to local disks. ![]() It worked fine, and after the initial backup was reasonably quick, although even on the initial full backup it only achieved 22MB/sec via AFP, whereas a simple copy via AFP I can get 45-50MB/sec write. I've been playing with the usual Mac backup software - Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper (great btw for local backups, but neither of which seem to offer backup to a network share). I have a 2TB firewire drive, which is not being backed up by TM, and is connected to the Mac Mini, that I would like to mirror to the other 2TB drive on the NAS. ![]() One drive is used as a Time Machine backup for my three computers - a Mac mini, Macbook Pro, and Macbook. I'm using a TS-239 Pro II configured as 2 x 2TB separate drives. I'm wondering what software for Mac people are using to backup/copy files to the NAS. ![]()
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