How best to push the important files on the Macs over to a Windows share on a regular basis? I have a Windows box with a big chunk of storage though, and that also gets copied off to Backblaze.
#Backup mac to synology time machine smb mac
Infrequent USB drive Time Machine backups since, and my wife's Mac Mini is now so stuffed it can't backup to the attached drive any more. Have a few Macs in the house that used to back up to a Time Capsule until it died.
"Client-server" applications, which were developed before there were any affordable alternatives to a tape drive destination, generally back up one machine at a time in sequence. There was a thread on the Mac Ach a year or two ago in which the OP had discovered that, when backing up 15 or 20 Macs with TM to one server Mac, half of them weren't actually being backed up because they were "losing the fight". That's true for Time Machine too, although if you were backing up your home Macs before you'll probably be OK. If you use Arq or any other "push" backup application, you should be aware that you'll have each machine you're backing up trying to simultaneously write to the same server drive.
#Backup mac to synology time machine smb install
According to this it can't, but can backup to an SFTP server-which you'd have to install on your Windows box if it doesn't exist by default.
Now that armwt has mentioned it, it occurred to me to take a look at its documentation to see if Arq can indeed back up to an SMB share. I had thought of mentioning Arq, although I have no personal experience with it.
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