Time Machine does this automatically for you. When you tell Apple Time Machine to back up to the NAS it will automatically create a sparse-bundle in the NAS folder and put the Time Machine backup there. There are many articles on the web telling you that you need to use Apple’s disk utility to manually create a sparse image but these are wrong.This is because you want your regular user to have access to the entire 4TB of the hard drive, but you need to limit the amount of space available to Time Machine (1g 1.5TB) otherwise Time Machine will just keep on backing up to the NAS until it is completely full!
If you want to back up using Time Machine you need to create a completely separate user (I called my user ‘Time Machine’). But ‘shared’ folders appear the same to everyone. The NAS looks different depending on who you have logged in as.
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So the NAS will eventually look like a series of separate mounted drives like this: They are called home, video, music, and photo. You have no control over what the Synology hard drives are called, so don’t try changing the name.
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I don’t want to describe in detail how to set it up, the instructions are pretty self-explanatory.
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