Time Machine Help

[iczster]

Can anyone help please, this is my first Mac and I want to schedule a TM backup to do the following.

• I have a 6TB LaCie RAID drive and want to create a folder on there to store backups
• Include certain network folders from another NAS to be backed up
• Pick what times and how often backups occur. No problem doing a full backup overnight

Any ideas on how this can be done simply and can it be done with TM?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[rkaufmann87]

That is not at all how TM works. I think you would benefit by reading up on Time Machine. Pondini wrote some excellent advice on it that is still correct. You can find it by clicking http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html

It does regular backups, it also does not play well with NAS's with the exception of Apple's own Time Capsule router/HD combo. While there are many NASs that say they work with TM, Apple does not support any of them. This means if you update OS X at all then your NAS may likely stop working until the NAS developers get around to updating their systems.

My recommendation...If you want TM to work reliably simply get either a Separate EHD and connect it as Apple intended it to work or get a TC for a NAS solution.

 

[iczster]

Bit limiting I want to backup by exception. Ill reinstall if I need to.

Any other applications anyone recommended or best just writing my own scripts and running them in cron?

 

[rkaufmann87]

In the Time Machine System Preference you can tell it what you want to exclude. You cannot tell it what to include because TM is designed to backup everything.