Hello in this video I'm going to talk about setting up a time machine
share
for backing up a Mac on a Synology DS918+
These instructions I assume are relevant to other
Synology NAS devices
I'll go into the control panel here at info center and
I'm using
DSM version
6.1.4-15217
update 5 I'm
Guessing older versions might have different setup procedure
And I don't know if this video would be helpful if you have an older
dsm version you have any tips to add you know certainly leave them in the comments, but I also have a
Some other Synology NAS videos in a playlist, I'll put those in the description also
if you're interested in those so well to get started we'll
I guess I'll back up just a little ways here
I'm in the I'll go into the control panel. I'm logged into the
Nass right now. I'll go to the control panel
I'll go to shared folder and I will
Add a folder here. I'll hit create
And I'll give it a name, I'm going to call this D s time machine and
I'm going to uncheck enable recycling bin and
That's all for now the other options under advanced
You have enable advanced data integrity protection and want that on and I'll disable I don't want enable file compression on for this
I'll hit OK
And it will have permissions here. I'll just leave them as is. I have an account setup which is important. I'll hit OK
So now we have the DS time machine
Share setup. We'll go into file services and
I have SMB enabled I went on high sierra
They recommend using SMB as opposed to AFP, and I actually i'm going to disable AFP down here
I'll leave SMB up and
Then i'll click on advanced settings
I'm going to go to mat SMB protocol. I'll change that to SMB 3 and then I'll hit apply and
It'll restart. I'll say yes, and then I'll go down here on this page and hit apply
Okay next I'll go on to the Advanced tab and
Select enable bonjour
Service directory and I'll check enable bonjour time machine broadcast via SMB
and I'll say set Time Machine folders and
I'll check the DS Time Machine folder, and I'll hit apply and
Then I'll go to the bottom of this page and hit apply
Yes
This connection failed please check your network settings
So I'm not sure what happened there, I think it did save it though, let's see
It did seem to save it, so let's try it out
so I'll go into my Mac and the finder I see the
And it says the server cannot be found
So
Going to finder I'll go to go
Say connect to server. I'll type in SMB colon slash slash in the name of the server might connect
And
It says select the volume you want to mount so I'll select DS time machine
Okay
now if I go up to I
Was about to go to my menu icon, but if you don't have that set up
I guess you'll need to you want to go your system preferences and
you can I like to have it in my menu, so I say show time machine in the menu bar and
That's this little clock looking thing
I'll go up here, and I'll say select disk and it says available disks is DS time machine
I'll say select that I want to encrypt it. I'll click encrypt, and I'll say use disk
And it says do you want to use to replace the existing Time Machine backup or used both?
and I want to use both just get started so say use both and
then
It'll have me type a username password to the DS918+, so I have that stored in my keychain I'll hit connect
and
now it's going to ask for a
Password a backup password and this is for the encryption
So you'll want to type that in and I'll say encrypt disk and now it's setup and it's waiting to back up so
It'll you know take a few minutes to get going it'll this is gonna be a big backup because it'll be you know almost a
Terabyte of data, that's gonna back up
but that should
Work and get going so if you have any questions that please leave them in the comments, and if you like this video
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