I have a Synology DS920+, which I received as a Christmas gift. It really does depend on which NAS you’re considering. Web services might be prohibited by your ISP if you need to get to it from outside the house unless you pay for a commercial connection…depends on your ISP. The Studio does have an OWC RAID on it where photos reside and they all get backed up to other drives and BackBlaze as well. I’m happy to accept the slight degradation in hourly backup reliability because everything that really matters is in more places than the laptops anyway…1PW vault on DropBox, DropBox on all of our computer, the Studio is the home file server, mail is all IMAP, etc.Įverything else you want to do is easy on a macOS computer…haven’t mucked much with NAS so no idea if it’s easy or harder there. This solution has been 100% bulletproof and makes Finder readable backups including CCCs Safety Net feature. Enabled TM after plugging in a drive to the laptops that’s never actually plugged in…just did this so that TM would run by itself with no external destination so that hourly backups would be done to the local SSD…I realize that this isn’t as good as TM to another drive but it allows easy recovery from accidental file deletion. Set them to run daily alternating between the two destinations. So…I setup CCC jobs for the laptops…and set the destination to Remote Macintosh and saved the credentials to the CCC keychain.
#MAC MINI PLEX FULL#
I use that anyway on all of our computers to run both full and incremental backups to various destinations and it just works. dmg file that it mounts and unmount as necessary.Īfter mucking about with this for several months…setup from scratch tried several times…my conclusion was that TM to network destinations basically doesn’t work. Never the same error message twice.Īdditionally…TM to a network drive doesn’t make Finder readable copies…it makes a. One laptop would work today and not the other…then tomorrow neither, the day after both, and the day after that the one that worked would fail and the other would work. Tried both of them separately as well as together with alternating backups using both non admin and admin accounts for permissions…even tried setting up the destination permissions as Everyone Read/Write.
#MAC MINI PLEX DRIVER#
Wife and I have daily driver laptops and I setup both a mini (in our entertainment center) and an iMac (now Studio) that’s my photo processing platform and tried to setup Time Machine on the laptops with them as the destination. I’ve been doing macOS and Apple II os before that since the early 80s…and was a Windows sysadmin for 20+ years…so I’m pretty computer savvy. Time Machine to a network server basically doesn’t work right. I would go with the mini for a couple of reasons…but it really boils down to just one…and that’s TM.
#MAC MINI PLEX PRO#
The Western Digital My Cloud Home seemed easy to manage but has some shortfalls, do the Pro Series address these issues? I am comfortable with technology and happy to set up a NAS if it will deliver the services above and addresses the issues Ivan highlighted… Any thoughts/advice? robustness of Time Machine backups, speed of processor and external USB.
My initial thoughts were to get a NAS but after reading Ivan Drucker’s article on TibBITS (14th January 2022) this is not as simple as I would have hoped e.g.
#MAC MINI PLEX MAC#
A Mac mini attached to an external HDD seems expensive but will ensure everything works smoothly and easy to manage. My options seem to be either a Mac mini or a NAS. Not essential, but a web server would be nice.Storage for photos (I am about to buy a 45 megapixel camera and will be storing files as RAW and do not want to clog up my MBP (~5TB).
I am looking to run the following key services: I posted a question about running a Plex server and thanks to everyone who responded, it has opened a can of worms for me and my head is spinning!
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