apple is putting security chips in their devices and all data is physically encrypted. Why not get a bigger drive to dangle off of the Mac?Ī.) Vendor diversification. I have tested restores of both files and the entire NAS and it all works nicely. The USB drive and B2 give me two backups in 2 different locations managed by 2 separate vendors.
#B2 backblaze nas mac#
The Mac uses synology Drive for some file syncs and TM for the rest.There was a problem with TM backups initially related to file permission but I worked that out. Mac + Synology + USB backup on Synology + BackBlaze I first gave iCloud a try but was unsatisfied. I decided last year to switch to Synology, after I outgrew the drive hanging off of my Mac. I still use Time Machine to an external drive too because backups are good. I eventually gave up and just use Carbon Copy Cloner to the NAS. It has also happened when using an external hard drive, so I don't know what's up with my Mac. This happened when using a normal SMB file system or a sparsebundle on the NAS. Time Machine: It would work for me for weeks/months at a time, then I would get an error that the backup was corrupt and it would have to start over. Chronosync I believe is similar, I don't know why it wouldn't work.
#B2 backblaze nas how to#
Photos: If anyone knows how to get this to reliably work on a network drive I would love to know how.īacking up the Mac: I use Carbon Copy Cloner to sync almost my entire home directory to the NAS every night (not just Photos). If you search the reddit Synology forum there are many discussions about backing up to different services. Not to B2, but I don't see why that wouldn't work. I use another program (Duplicacy ( )) running on a server to back up the Synology to the "cloud". Synology / Cloud Sync / B2: This is a problem I've read about before. * There is a built-in automounter (but can't mount to /Volumes?). * There's an app called AutoMounter by Pixeleyes which should do what you want. I tried some things and they kind of worked, but it only worked for one user at a time and it wasn't very important to me so I gave up on it. The whole point of all this was to simplify and make it easier to protect my data vs external USB drives.Īuto Mounting: This is a pain. Don't really want a whole other shared folder + another mount on the iMac just for Dropbox. It won't let me select a folder under Data b/c that folder is already setup to sync to B2 (which obviously isn't working). Tried to setup Cloud Sync to sync my Dropbox to a folder on the NAS. Seems to work most of the time, but doesn't inspire confidence. Occasionally when I wake the iMac there will be a TM error that it couldn't connect to the remote location. I use Time Machine to back up the iMac to the NAS. I have Chronosync and try to setup a task to mirror the library to a folder on the NAS, that fails with some error about being unable to delete the file on the remote side. So I had to move that back to the local disk. Photos doesn't work right if your library is hosted on a NAS. I have a ticket open with Synology, and they tried several things over the past few weeks, but it still doesn't work reliably. Backblaze says this is a known issue with Synology.
It works for a few days then fails saying my key has expired or been revoked. I'm trying to use Cloud Sync to backup the NAS to B2. If I have an Excel spreadsheet on the NAS open, reboot and say restore open apps, the Excel fails on reboot b/c the volume isn't mounted yet. I want it to happen at boot (the equivalent of /etc/fstab in Linux). How do I make that permanent? No I don't want to do it via the login items for my user account. I've got all my data (well most, more on that later) on the Synology. I keep running into one problem after another. I'm trying to move all my data to the NAS and use Backblaze B2 to backup the NAS. I have an iMac and now a Synology DS218+. Not sure why this is so hard, but maybe someone here can help.
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