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How to update Synology Cloud Station Server Clients (Cloud Station Drive) after Synology NAS 6.0 update.Good thing I have alternatives to this TM backup. Update : Backup also failed when I upgraded the old Air from Sierra to High Sierra. ItвЂ™s probably something to do with extended attributes, AFP, and some kind of El Capitan bug. you canвЂ™t use Time Machine to access a backup unless youвЂ™re on the original machine (which is why itвЂ™s SatanвЂ™s own backup).ДЄll very occult. BackupLoupe could even browse it, because, you know. I deleted the original and I was able to Finder copy the Synology copy to my local machine. It copied well, no sign of a file system problem. I figured that was a bogus error message from a corrupt file, so I used Synology to copy the 200GB directory internally. Every time I tried it quit at about 54GB with a message like вЂњThe operation canвЂ™t be completed because you donвЂ™t have permission to access some of the items.вЂќ A different 60GB file copied normally. sparsebundle to a local drive so I could browse it efficiently. So then I installed a (long!) physical ethernet cable and tried Finder (AF) copying the. Nothing worked, I couldnвЂ™t make use of the existing backup. I tried various things to mount the old sparse bundle including disabling SMB, etc. I didnвЂ™t find anything - but did update my notes on the confusing configuration (every machine has a dedicated Synology username and quota). Instead I ran through a checkup of the NAS.

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sparsebundle from there (donвЂ™t even think of trying to do this through the Mac Finder) then start over. The usual approach to this problem is to use the Synology web interface to run вЂњFile StationвЂќ and delete the. I canвЂ™t say if this was related to El Capitan or not, but I do wonder about El CapвЂ™s relative deprecation of AFP (which Synology/Time Capsule needs). I don't use BackupLoupe regularly, but I've used it enough over the years that it's been well worth the cost.A few days after my carefully delayed update from Yosemite to El Capitan, EmilyвЂ™s MacBook Air complained it couldnвЂ™t run its Time Machine backups to our Synology DS215jВ NAS.

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In fact, even when you pay, you don't get a license file, just a warm feeling for having done the right thing. I noticed that when I saw an 80GB Time Machine run in BackupLoupe.Д«ackupLoupe is $10, but has no nags or time-limited restrictions of any sort. When I first started ripping Blu-rays, for instance, I didn't have the Blu-ray master file folder excluded from Time Machine. In this case, the answer was that I had changed (fittingly) my backup strategy a bit, and this was the initial backup of the new backups, if that's not too recursive to follow.Д«ackupLoupe also helps me save space, as it can reveal unintended backups. To see why a given backup was so big, just click into each entry, as you would in a columnar Finder window. Those colors, and a bunch of other items, are fully customizable in BackupLoupe's prefs:

The highlighted backup is red on both sides because it was large (33.80GB), and large relative to other backups. BackupLoupe examines your Time Machine backups and computes a 'diff' for each one, letting you know exactly what was backed up in a given run:Д®ach backup is color coded-on the left of each backup's name, the color indicates the size of the backup, and on the right, the deviation of that size from the norm. Enter BackupLoupe, a $10 'honorware' app. While I love how Time Machine works, I dislike that it doesn't tell you anything about a given backup other than how big it was. We also use it, via a Time Capsule ( RIP, sigh), to back up our laptops. My backup strategy includes Time Machine, mainly for recovering from 'oh crud I didn't mean to delete that!' moments.

In short, I do my best to make sure a hardware failure or natural disaster won't take out my data. I test my backups to make sure they're good. I'm somewhat paranoid about backups-I have many of them, both online and offline, onsite and offsite.

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