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Does anyone have experience with building a NAS for their Mac?
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We have a couple of Synology NAS at the office (I forget the models). One is geared towards data sharing on the LAN and the other is used by our off-site employees. We managed to get a git server running which is nice, but that's an interesting idea to use them for Time Machine. As it stands, we just issue everyone a personal TM external drive and call it a day, but I might look into this.
It was pretty easy to set up. There was a time machine setting somewhere that makes it so the Mac will just see it as a viable backup location.
Having everyone’s TM on the NAS would make it easy to set up some sort of offsite mirror as well.
I just googled Synology Time Machine setup or something and there were a ton of guides.