> On 16 Nov 2020, at 8:37 am, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > > H there, my Brother in law has two iMacs each of which we’re backing to his > old style flat Time Capsule which is now dead - tried all of the reset > methods numerous times. It’s cactus. Some options he has are to buy a used > tower style TC or go to using his iiNet NBN modem Wifi and attach a backup > NAS drive to it and set Time Machine to push backups to the NAS. > > Does anyone have experience with either and if the NAS route is all ok, is > there a recommended brand of NAS? > > Does Migration Assistant work ok in pulling back to set up a new iMac from a > backup on a NAS? Are there any downsides to a NAS solution. > > The TC is such a good device it is a shame that Apple no longer produce them. > There may be some new-old stock laying around or a cleared known used one > would be ok I suppose.
The hard d rive in my TC died several months ago, but the networking hardware still works so i’ve replaced the TM functionality with a couple of 3 & 5 Tb USB drives. Fortunately these are now cheap enough to make this feasible. I’m looking at a NAS eventually but managing with the current set up at the moment. Kind regards, Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
