Hi, I just purchased up a TeraStation TS-WX2.0TLR1 ( firmware is 1.10) for my home network which consists of a couple Windows XP workstations ( using NasNavigator2 2 24) and an iMAc with Mac OS X v 10.6. ( using NasNavigator2 2 26. ).
I want to set up my Terastation to have three shares. One share for the iMac for Apple's Time Machine backup,a second share for the iMac for files that I would backup manually outside of the Time Machine and one share for the windows workstation files that I would back up manually. If the Windows workstations and the iMac can share one share for the manually backed up files that would be OK.
The question is how do I configure the Terastation to accomplish this to limit the size of Time Machine Backup's share so that it will not take over the Terastation? I'm a newbie with NAS, I looked at the user manual and setup manual PDF's, but I'm a little confused on what to do. Is there a more detailed PDF manual available?
thanks
Vince
cuzinvinny wrote:Hi, I just purchased up a TeraStation TS-WX2.0TLR1 ( firmware is 1.10) for my home network which consists of a couple Windows XP workstations ( using NasNavigator2 2 24) and an iMAc with Mac OS X v 10.6. ( using NasNavigator2 2 26. ).
I want to set up my Terastation to have three shares. One share for the iMac for Apple's Time Machine backup,a second share for the iMac for files that I would backup manually outside of the Time Machine and one share for the windows workstation files that I would back up manually. If the Windows workstations and the iMac can share one share for the manually backed up files that would be OK.
The question is how do I configure the Terastation to accomplish this to limit the size of Time Machine Backup's share so that it will not take over the Terastation? I'm a newbie with NAS, I looked at the user manual and setup manual PDF's, but I'm a little confused on what to do. Is there a more detailed PDF manual available?
thanks
Vince
What I was thinking of was setting a hard limit on the "shares". How can I do that and would that work to control Apple Time Machine backup from taking over the drive? I saw something on users and groups but how do I associate that with the shares and accesses by my PC's and iMac?
Did you get anywhere with this? I've been having the same issue. I set a hard limit but that just generates a quota threshold warning email. Time Machine continues to see all that free space and wants to use it!