#Synology drive m1 how to#
#Synology drive m1 install#
#Synology drive m1 full#
#Synology drive m1 pro#

So you can’t hop in to your backup and just grab the file you want.ĬCC lets you mirror your exact file directory, which is what I want. It creates its own packages of files and folders. I’m a little eh on this whole setup though.Īrq is a little odd to use in that it doesn’t mirror your file directory.

The Mac Mini is always on and the two drives that are attached to it are backed up via Backblaze.

I am using Carbon Copy Cloner to duplicate my Lightroom hard drive to a remote copy of my Lightroom hard drive, so my Lightroom catalog backups and the photos themselves are on two drives.

The backup happens every hour, and it works a la Time Machine.

I am using Arq to backup my laptop to one of the external hard drives, as though it were a Synology-type NAS.

I have a Mac Mini with a couple external hard drives attached.

I’ve got this all set up the way it’s detailed earlier in the thread:

#Synology drive m1 how to#

(Not really sure how to set it up headless or anything, so any and all advice is still appreciated!)

The unit arrives on Monday and I’ll try to keep you all posted on how it goes once I get it set up. It’s still cheaper than what I would have ended up spending in Synology land and it fits my needs better (Mac-centric with easy restore options should the worst happen).

#Synology drive m1 pro#

It’s taken me forever to get around to it, but I’m nearly out of ports on my MacBook Pro and Studio Display, and my wife’s laptop hasn’t been backed up in over a year, so I bit the bullet and ordered a refurb M1 Mini today. It’s been far more reliable and consistent for me so far. I’ve switched to Arq for my network backups. This has been true whether the target was a Time Capsule, NAS, or a network share from another Mac. That said, I have never found Time Machine over the network to be reliable. IMO, a Mac mini with sufficient attached storage makes a much better home server solution than a NAS.

#Synology drive m1 install#

Just install Backblaze and pay for one of their unlimited storage plans. The fact that my big pot of storage is directly attached to a Mac also makes online backup much easier.

#Synology drive m1 full#

Having them directly attached to a Mac gives me confidence that I’ll have a full local copy of these. There are certain things that don’t work well on a network share (Photos and iTunes libraries, for example). I previously used a NAS (Drobo, in my case) and had found the mini with lots of attached external storage to fit my needs much better. I use an Intel Mac mini with a big OWC RAID array as my home server. I will miss accessing my files from the NAS when I’m on the living room couch, but I suppose there’s a way to remote into my Mac Studio to retrieve them if I really want to do some work while watching Slow Horses and Strange New Worlds! And I can sell off the Synology and QNap NASs, though I think I might keep the QNap switch for the two 10GBe ports and eight 2.5 GBe ports. That and the constant corruption of Time Machine backups have made my desk a lot less cluttered. I need Thunderbolt 3 to be happy working with my files. I found as a photographer (retired) even 10GBe connections in-house were not up to snuff for my needs. I’m backing the Macs and my two OWC 4M2 NVME RAIDs to Backblaze, and the G-Drive is going to be backed up to Backblaze B2 using Chronosync. Now I’m using Chronosync 10 for local backups and synchronization tasks to a 12TB Thunderbolt 3 G-Drive. And I’m pretty much done with Time Machine. And now that we would need to transition to HPFS for Time Machine, I just threw that solution out the window. The reason for the unhappiness was the backups always ended up corrupted and having to be replaced. And let’s not even get into the lack of support with either NAS and APFS. We were both using M1 and Intel MacBook Pros, and, as of last week, my new Mac Studio Max. The QNap along with a QNap Switch gave me a 10GBe network to use (using a QNap 10GBe to Thunderbolt 3 adapter - the optical kind), I was never happy with backing up to Time Machine that way.

I’ve tried the NAS life, but after trying Synology and QNap both, I’m done.