Bootable drive with Carbon Copy Cloner & NAS?

[Xorro]

I have installed CCC in the hope of making a backup to my new NAS. I already have TimeMachine backing up to an external HDD.

I would like CCC to be able to make a bootable disk/partition on the NAS but CCC tells me that the clone will not be bootable?

Can anyone give me some pointers?

Thanks.

 

[old-wiz]

It's usually not possible to boot off a NAS, so a clone stored there won't be bootable.

 

[Xorro]

In that case, what are my options?

If I use CCC to copy my data from the iMac to the NAS, it warns about 'linking' not been enabled. But I assume my data will still be usable if I went down this route?

 

[Fishrrman]

"In that case, what are my options?"

Get an external drive that is NOT "NAS".

USB or firewire will do just fine.

 

[old-wiz]

In that case, what are my options?

If I use CCC to copy my data from the iMac to the NAS, it warns about 'linking' not been enabled. But I assume my data will still be usable if I went down this route?

"usable" and "bootable" are 2 different things. If you want it bootable it has to be attached to the Mac via either Firewire or USB.