Can I setup separate partitions for Windows Backup and TimeMachine?

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud
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Hi,

I use a 3TB WD MyCloud to backup my PC and MacBook Air. I have my PC setup to image and backup once a week. TimeMachine is always backing up my MacBook Air until the backup disk runs out of space (then it deletes the oldest backups). I wouldl ike to setup my drive so that 1TB is used for my MacBook backups so that I always have enough space to complete my PC backups. Two quesitons:

  1. Can I set up  two partitions on the drive so I have 1TB availble for TimeMachine and the remaining space availble for Windows Backup?
  2. Can I partition the drive without erasing the existing content? I’m not sure this is possible but I figured I would ask.

As always, thanks in advance!

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No.  You can’t partition NASes.

Some NASes allow the configuration of “quotas,” which limit the sizes of certain shares or users’ data, but the Cloud NAS doesn’t have that capability.

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I continued looking through the different options. Although you can not partition the drive, you can change the maximum size Time Machine can utilize.

Settings–>General–>Select “Configure Mac Backups” and you can drag the slider to change the maximum size allowed for a Time Machine backup.