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Just a thought....

Posted by AbeCollins (A) on October 14, 2023 at 16:04:36

In Reply to: Glad you approve posted by tlea on October 8, 2023 at 16:40:20:

- I had multiple household Macs set up with Time Machine backups going to NAS. It worked but was it was rather slow over the network compared to direct-attached USB disks (especially fast with direct-attached SSD).

I also found that Time Machine to NAS although slow was OK for photos, documents, etc but not so good for recovering macOS if the internal disk in the Mac failed. Direct-attached Time Machine works much better in that regard.

- After a few years I developed a multi-pronged Archive / Backup / Recovery strategy that works for me. And that's the important part. Having a strategy that you test and that actually works for YOU. There is no exact right or wrong way.

For our Macs:

- Each Mac (except my laptop) has a USB SSD permanently attached for Time Machine AND Carbon Copy Cloner backups. The 1TB or 2TB SSD is setup with two partitions. One partition is for continuous Time Machine backups. The other partition is for a Carbon Copy Cloner task that backs up to the other SSD partition once a night. I have a 2nd Carbon Copy Cloner task that backs up to NAS as well. This strategy is setup on three Macs in our house (but not the laptop).

- I also have an Archive folder setup on NAS and that's where we store a bunch of photos, documents, and other stuff we don't need access to. Various other things that we backup eventually get manually moved to the Archive folder.

The ENTIRE NAS is automatically backed up nightly at 4:00 a.m. to a large USB disk that is attached to the NAS. I've used either USB Copy or HyperBackup for this. It's also worth noting that formatting the large USB disk in a format that your Mac will recognize is a good idea. If the NAS totally fails, you can simply unplug the big USB disk from the NAS and attach it to a Mac and read its contents. I use exFAT.

ALL backups described above take quite a long time the first time around so it's best to do one at a time and let it finish. Subsequent backups are incremental so they go pretty quick.

I don't use the laptop that much and there's not a lot on it so I just attach a SSD to it now and then to do a Time Machine backup.

Edits: 10/14/23

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