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How to backup a Mac to a NAS (Samba-connected Windows share)?

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I'd like to find an (semi-)automated way to backup my whole MacBook Pro system and data to a network attached storage. The external storage is a Windows share I can access using Samba. I can't use Time Machine, because it asks for a Time Capsule device - or is there a way to use Time Machine withou…

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You can 'force' Time Machine to backup to other mounted network shares. In Terminal, run the following: This should then allow you to backup to your SMB, AFP and NFS network shares. If they do not initially show up in Time Machine, mount them and th…

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