Sparse Bundle reliability?

Kemik

Kemik

Kemik

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Hey,

You might know that I've been looking at buying a NAS recently. The forums which support the NAS I'm looking at buying (QNap TS-209 II Pro) has a post stating how to use TimeMachine with it.

They recommend creating a Sparse Bundle and then transferring that to the NAS and TimeMachine should use that image. However, I have some doubts. How reliable is a Sparse Bundle? I don't want it to become corrupted and then I lose my whole TimeMachine backup.

I'm looking in to other options such as partitioning but I don't think it's possible with the NAS I'm looking at.
 
likwid said:
If incidentally you fancy an alternative to this and have some network cable lying around you could expedite a remote back up considerably. Something else which you may consider is having time machine back up over wireless every hour pretty much uses all of your wireless network throughput for the length of the back up.
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The plan is to connect the NAS to the router via network cable. My MBP is connected to the router via network cable too so speed should only really be limited by the amount of data per second my BT Home Hub can take (apparently about 10MB/s).

I'll need to buy a new router actually, all two (:rolleyes:) of my ethernet ports are taken. Need one with four.

Seen as he backups are hourly the amount transferred should be only a few MB but on the odd occasion it's around 1GB then that should take about 2mins to transfer. I just wanted to make sure backing up on my NAS via network cable would be as reliable as backing up on to an external USB hard drive like I currently do.
 
So I could have the following setup and all devices, including the Lounge PS3, PC and iMac would be able to access the NAS?

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The problem is my Home Hub is limited to two Ethernet ports.

The NAS will be in most use by the MBP for backups. The lounge PS3 might use it now and then along with my PS3 but the PC and iMac will probably never need to access it.

How would you best network it with those details?

Thanks for all your help btw.
 
Awesome. I don't even need to spend money. I have that cable router sitting two foot from me at my flat at University.

Thanks for your help mate :)
 
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