Back Up Files
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ReadyNAS Duo, NV+, and 1100
Back Up a Mac to a ReadyNAS System with Time Machine
If you have a Mac, you can use Time Machine to back it up to your ReadyNAS system. In
FrontView, enable Time Machine support on your ReadyNAS system. Then, on your Mac,
select your ReadyNAS system as your backup disk.
To enable Time Machine support:
1.
From the FrontView main menu, select
Backup > Time Machine.
2.
Select
Enable Time Machine support
.
3.
In the Password field, create a password.
The user name is ReadyNAS and cannot be changed.
4.
In the Capacity field, enter a maximum size in GB for the Time Machine share.
If you leave this field blank or enter zero, your Time Machine backup can use all available
space on your ReadyNAS system. If you enter a size, the backup can use whatever is
smaller: all available space or the size entered.
5.
Click the
Apply
button.
The AFP protocol is enabled, if it was not enabled already.
To back up your Mac to your ReadyNAS system:
1.
Open System Preferences and click
Time Machine
.
2.
Click
Select Disk
.
3.
Select
ReadyNAS
and click
Use Backup Disk
or
Use for Backup
.
A dialog box displays.
4.
Enter
ReadyNAS
as the user name, enter the password you created in the previous
procedure, and click
Connect
.
Your Mac starts to back up your files to the ReadyNAS system. The first backup can take
several hours.
