[X4U] Time Machine and NAS?

[Zane H. Healy]

At 7:40 PM -0500 10/23/07, Nick Scalise wrote:
>MacInTouch has updated their Leopard FAQ and they state you can use 
>any old NAS storage.
>
><http://www.macintouch.com/leopard/faq.html#tm>
>
>Q: Can Time Machine back up to a NAS (network attached storage, such 
>as Buffalo Linkstation, Western Digital Netcenter, AirPort Disk etc)
>
>A: Yes. Time Machine will create a sparse (expandable) disk image on 
>a network file volume. It should work with NAS devices.

Thanks, lots of good info there!  Though I find it interesting they 
recommend against putting it on a RAID set.

Zane


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