So…I setup CCC jobs for the laptops…and set the destination to Remote Macintosh and saved the credentials to the CCC keychain.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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: You’ll want to make sure your WiFi is fast enough to support the devices.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! HEVC streams can often exceed 100 Mbit/s, so the server will need to be connected to a gigabit (1000 Mbit/s) connection through all switches and the routerĪre the Roku’s connected via Ethernet or wireless? Both Roku’s only support fast Ethernet (100 Mbit/s), so it’s best for the Roku’s to connect wirelessly. That’s great! Do you know if the Mac Mini is connected via fast or gigabit Ethernet? You can check in System Preferences, network. Both of your clients should direct play HEVC - there should be no reason to buffer other than a bandwidth limitation. Your situation is ideal - all clients are on the same network as the server is and all clients support h265, so there’s no need to transcode. I’m gonna rearrange your post to make my reply more coherent A common misunderstanding! Transcoding is only needed when a client can’t play the source file natively, either because the client doesn’t support the codec and needs to convert the file to a format it supports, or because there is insufficient bandwidth and the file has to be processed to a smaller size in order to make it to the other end (usually a problem for remote clients in our circumstances).
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