Where has the time machine Integration with My cloud home gone?

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I searched online and saw this product had a Time Machine integration built-in, so I bought it. Now I can’t seem to find that setting anymore. People are saying that you should create a user for time machine but I want to limit on how much space Time Machine should take up as it would fill my drive-in hours.

Any help?!

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Did you try the support website?

You should find what you need here: https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/7839

Please note that Time Machine support on My Cloud Home is limited (no SMB, no size limits, etc.)

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So you’re telling me there’s no features like allocating specific amounts of space for time machine on my cloud home? I’ll just send it back then that’s just completely pointless.

Thanks

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Yes indeed (twice)…

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Somewhat related…but no answers at the link you provided.

I set my My Cloud Home as the target disk for Time Machine. It used up all available space on the drive since there is not way to limit this. I had to figure out how to manually delete Time Machine Backups with Terminal, but even after deleting them, it’s still showing at <1% capacity. The backup is still sitting on the device and I can’t free up the space.

Do I have to wipe it and start fresh? I have a backup of the media files, so I could wipe the device and then copy the files back to it from the connected portable backup drive, but this still seems like a lot of work. Please help…

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