Backing Up 2 Computers To 1 NAS

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  1. R.Youden, Nov 6, 2014

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    I have a NAS connected to my home network and I want to be able to backup my desktop and laptop computer to that one drive. On my laptop I just have my standard drive whilst on my desktop I have 3 mounted drives (my applications & docs on an SSD, my movies & TV shows on a HDD and my photos on another HDD) so in all I have 4 drives to back up.

    I've been looking at something like Carbon Copy Clone, if I partition my NAS into 5 blocks (4 the same size as my main dives and 1 spare) will I just be able to perform automated backups onto the NAS?

    Finally if I add a Bootcamp drive will I be able to back that up via CCC?

    Thanks guys.
     
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  2. ColdCase, Nov 6, 2014

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    You don't have to partition the drive as CCC can backup to sub folders and you can set maximim backup folder size. If you intend to make a bootable backup, then a partition for that may be better, the other partition would contain the rest of the backups.

    You can schedule backups to run automatically on hourly, daily, weekly, monthly type schedule. I use CCC to backup 5 drives to a single drive, each on a separate schedule. Each drive has its backup folder.

    Not sure about bootcamp, but CCC has a number of FAQs on their web site I think.
     
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