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I did look at the QNAP solution and whilst it will almost certainly be better than the WD, plus the additional functionality like media streaming would be useful, I decided that the set-up was probably beyond my capabilities. I consideredВ remote data back-upВ but it would take months to upload hundreds of gigs of RAW photos. I know this is not as good as off-site but there is nothing 'mission critical' in my data. I also want a NAS solution so that I can locate the drive in the corner of the house furthest from the computers, behind a fire door to provide a small amount of additional safely in the event of a fire.

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My technical ability is somewhat limited andВ I just wantВ something I can install fairly painlessly,В leave running in the background and have a good degree of certainty that the data will be there in the event of a failure of both myВ PC and locally connected storage.В Ditto my wife's Mac and Time Machine.

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My back-up expectations are limited to data and not for full system recovery. And for the price it can't be beat.Д«elated thanks for your further advice. It maybe less sophisticated NAS but probably good enough for most people and has feature most people will not even use.

I don't believe that any consumer or SMB-market NAS is capable of this as nearly all of them seem to use Linux file systems on their internal disk volumes. Lastly, it's my understanding that full system recovery (OS restore) of OS X requires that your backups are kept on an HFS+ formatted disk to keep certain extended file attributes in tact. While I believe Macs do have PXE boot capabilities, I do not believe you can boot a complete functioning OS disk volume over a network. In addition to Time Machine, popular Mac backup utilities like Carbon Copy Cloner are able to keep a locally attached backup drive as a fully bootable disk volume. With a locally attached TM drive, you boot to the recovery console, point it at the TM drive, and walk away. Therefore you could not preform a complete system recovery from a NAS based TM backup without first obtaining and preparing bootable OS X install media and reinstalling the OS. To the best of my knowledge, the Mac recovery console cannot access a Time Machine source on a network file share. You don't think the OP might be better served taking up Mac related discussion of this topic in the Mac Talk forum here? PC Talk means Personal Computer so it includes any PC.

First of all it is not PC forum the way you describe it.

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