WD 3TB cloud and Time Machine

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud
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I was planning on backing up 2 Mac laptops on the same cloud drive…is this possible when using Time Machine?
Mike

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Yes you can backup multiple computers to the My Cloud using TimeMachine (Mac) or Smartware (Window). If you haven’t read the My Cloud User Manual (http://support.wdc.com/product.aspx?ID=904) already you should read it. It explains how to use the My Cloud as a backup target for Time Machine. See Chapter 4 Backing Up and Retrieving Files, Using Apple Time Machine. Also see the following WD Support document covering using Apple Time Machine.

https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=3561

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Good morning and thanks for the reply, I did read chapter 4 last evening and setup time machine on 1 of my Mac laptops and did a full backup. I was reluctant to begin the setup of Time Machine for the second Mac as I was not sure if it would simply write over the first Mac’s backup? In chapter 4 (unless I over looked it) I was not able to find information confirming the ability to back up another Mac with Time Machine on the same WD cloud drive.
Mike

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While I don’t have or use Mac or Apple Time Machine, apparently each Mac computer’s Time Machine creates a separate Time Machine backup folder/file on the My Cloud using either the Mac computer name or the Mac user name.

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Thanks for the info.
Mike

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It’s exactly like that. No problem.