Time Machine Backup To Synology NAS

[tekguru]

I came across this article on FB the other day. Very useful, it might be handy for others.

Time Machine Backup To Synology NAS - Storage Alchemist

Making a Time Machine backup from your Mac to a Synology NAS is very convenient and easy to setup. Find a step-by-step guidance in this post.

www.storagealchemist.com

 

[fredbert]

That's a detailed walk through, it could almost have been written by someone looking over my shoulder when I set up Time Machine backups

 

[tekguru]

I thought it was pretty damned good. The only issue I had with it was that I had to allow the Time Machine Backup user access to SMB or it could not connect to the NAS.
Prior to reading this I had my Mac user account used to do the backup.
It makes me think though if I want to restore from the backup I guess I'll need to give my user account access otherwise it'll not be able to get at the data?

 

[fredbert]

Not sure I understand. If you are using local accounts on both the Mac and NAS then there’s no connection between them and the two devices, even if you gave the accounts the same user name and password.

I created separate TM user accounts on the NAS so each Mac has its own. And each of these has a quota so it doesn’t eat all the storage.

It’s possible and ok to use your normal NAS user account for TM. I just wanted to be able to assign quotas.

 

[tekguru]

Right I'm good then I had limited the space on the shared folder and was controlling the quota that way.