Go To The Advanced Tab And Tick The Enable Bonjour Time Machine Broadcast Via Smb Or Enable Bonjour Time Machine Broadcast Via Afp Checkbox.

From the advanced options dialog, select “share as a time machine backup destination.” It is now time to connect and tell time machine about the new backup location on your nas. Go to the backup/time machine tab, select the checkbox, enter a password for the time machine user (“readynas”), and the capacity that you wish to limit time machine to.

From The Shared Folders List On The Right, Click The Add Button (+), Then Choose A Folder To Use For Time Machine Backups.

Connect time machine to nas. Time machine will do an incremental backup to the new share, keeping your backup history! Open system preferences > time machine on your mac.

Choose The Shared Folder That You Just Created From The Time Machine Menu And Save Your Settings.

Enable time machine service in frontview. Perform time machine backup to your synology nas Open system preferences → time machine and click select backup disk.

In System Preferences > Time Machine, Specify This New Share As Your Backup:

Sudo tmutil setdestination /volumes/time machine image>/ that is necessary, because the time machine gui still won’t let you select the image you created for backups. For use as a time machine server the setup is a breeze. Add the folders by clicking the + button and selecting the folder.

Then, Click On The Set Time Machine Folders Button.

Using nas with apple macos students are expected to have a working knowledge of: Configuring your nas 1.1 setting up a backup folder 1.2 creating an account 1.3 enabling afp/smb service 2. Airport time capsule, or external drive connected to an airport time capsule or airport extreme base station (802.11ac) follow these instructions to begin using time machine for backup.