Using MBP and Time Machine to move to WD My Cloud

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud
#1

Hi all

I have set Time Machine to back up to my WD My Cloud hard drive. I did the back up overnight and it was completed by the morning.

I went to MY Cloud to find the back up expecting it to be in a separate file but could not trace it, or am I missing something ? The back up was 350GB and My Cloud hard drive is showing a capacity change of 93% to 83% so it has worked, but where the back up has gone I don’t know. I want to delete all the file on my MBP but can’t till I know for sure.

regards

Grant

#2

sorry for wrong info just ask cpt_paranola he or she knows

#3

No it doesn’t. MyCloud uses the linux ext4 file system to store files, and uses file server protocols to make this file system available to client devices (SMB, NFS, AFP & FTP).

Time Machine backups should be stored in the TimeMachine share.

I’d be very wary of deleting original files with only a TimeMachine backup on the MyCloud, without checking that you can restore them from the TM sparsebundle.