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In Reply to: RE: Question posted by E-Stat on August 05, 2018 at 13:52:25
1st backup may take a while depending on what folders you choose. Subsequent backups are incremental. Only thing is, because TM is so basic and simple, it backs up every hour. You have no scheduling options.
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You have no scheduling options.That is unimportant to me since I maintain offline backups. Once a week, I pull the next of six drives from the fireproof safe and update it. Don't find the need to keep lots of spindles running 24/7 for no apparent gain. Along with extending drive life running but an hour or less each month, all online drives are subject to ransomware.
Is it file by file? Once I copy the files to the USB drive, I spread the contents to my server and a series of USB thumb drives which also backup a small chunk of financial data on a daily basis. Not interested in proprietary formats.
edit: I've never faced any challenges voiced by others using drive sharing. And use it frequently to sync wifey's Lion's Club laptop to the server for backup purposes. Just prior to when support for Win7 sunsets in January 2020, I will replace my 2011 based server with one having a 2 TB SSD with separate OS and data partitions. And continue to backup to offline drives for the largely static music, photo and video content (most of it) and to USB sticks for small daily changes.
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One of the features of Time Machine is its point-in-time backups that are easily retrieved by launching Time Machine. Lets say you're editing a document and you messed it up. You can easily "Enter Time Machine" and go back one hour, several hours, days, weeks, etc. etc. to easily retrieve an earlier copy.
That said, I believe you can also retrieve files w/o Time Machine but I haven't looked into it. There's a blog link below that indicates that this can be done but the posts are a bit old. I would recommend trying it for yourself to ensure it will work the way you want it to.
Time Machine, going back in time
Once you're at the window pane for the point in time you want, you can navigate folders, click on the file or folder you want, then press the Restore button. It will place that file/folder on your desktop.
it appears to be Mac only requiring an HFS filesystem. The USB drives use EXFAT to freely exchange between Mac and Win.
If you use Time Machine to backup to NAS, it supports SMB.
macOS supports exFAT and FAT32 but Time Machine does not. You could use an external exFAT disk then use a command line utility like tar or rsync, both are built-in on macOS.
If you're adventurous you could include one of the utilities in a script with cron / crontab to create a backup schedule. cron / crontab are built-in on macOS.
In the a terminal window:
man cron
man crontab
man tar
man rsync
man cpio
There might be some commercially available backup applications that are cross-platform compatible using exFAT or FAT32.
to copy her work laptop documents to an external USB drive. What I'm doing currently is likely that solution.
Thanks anyway. :)
...the best solution. ;-)
Abe, you should look at Hyper Backup on your Synology NAS. You have complete flexibility on the Backup Schedule. From 1 hour on up to daily, weekly, monthly etc. etc.
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I use Carbon Copy Cloner for my scheduled Mac backups. I have it installed on each Mac and it is scheduled to back up to the NAS in the wee hours of the morning. I also use Time Machine for quick and simple retrieval of 'point-in-time' backups.Hyper Backup is for backing up the NAS itself, not for backing up the computers on your network.
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For backing up the NAS I use SynologyUSB CopyHyper Backup . It backs up the NAS to an external 8TB USB HDD. This is also automated on a schedule.So Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner backup the Macs to the NAS. Synology
USB CopyHyper Backup backs up the NAS to an external USB disk.So, for backing up the NAS to external USB HDD I use Hyper Backup . I did use USB Copy but just once to initially 'bulk load' my music library from a USB disk to the NAS as this is faster than transferring all the music files over the network.
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Some Computers have files on them. :-)
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While I do use Carbon Copy Cloner and Time Machine to backup the computers to the NAS, I am actually using Hyper Backup to backup the NAS to external USB HDD (not USB Copy as originally posted).
Once set up this stuff is so automated I forgot! I used USB Copy once to initially 'bulk load' my music library from HDD to the NAS. But for backing up the NAS to external USB disk, I do in fact use Hyper Backup.
You are right! .... This stuff is so automated that I often forget what is happening. I usually have to think about what is being done.
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