Windows and Time Machine

[Tiger66]

Dumb question time. I live and work in a Windows world. I have my WD MyCloud 3TB NAS drive mapped to my desktop as the W: drive. All good there. Manual and automatic backups work flawlessly. But …

My wife has a MacBook and her device is supposedly backing up to my MyCloud drive through Apple Time Machine.

Here’s my question: When I look at my W: drive using my friendly Windows File Explorer, I see all of my desktop files properly back up. But what I don’t see is any indication that my wife’s Apple Time Machine files are also stored on the My Cloud drive.

In the MyCloud configuration page, Time Machine is shown as a Share profile, and it is turned on. So I must have done that a while ago when my wife got her MacBook. But I don’t know whether Time Machine is working or not.

As an old Windows guy set in his ways, I would have thought that the Time Machine files would have shown up on my MyCloud as it is mapped as W:. But I see nothing but my Windows files from my desktop.

Is there any way to make sure that my wife’s Time Machine files are, in fact, residing on the MyCloud drive? I’d hate for something to happen to my wife’s MacBook and find out then that the Time Machine backups never happened. that would be too late

Thanks in advance

[cat0w]

@Tiger66 You can take a look at the User Manual and or ask your wife?

4779-705147.pdf

[Bennor]

@Tiger66

But what I don’t see is any indication that my wife’s Apple Time Machine files are also stored on the My Cloud drive.

Generally the Time Machine backup files will be stored in the TimeMachineBackup Share on the My Cloud. If you are the administrator of the My Cloud and the TimeMachineBackup Share is set to Private, ensure your My Cloud user name account has access to that Private Share. Shares are the top level folders on the My Cloud. There should be several default Shares (Public, TimeMachineBackup, Smartware). When you map a Share you are ONLY mapping that single Share as a Windows drive letter, not the rest of the Shares on the My Cloud. You can use Windows File Explorer to explore the rest of the Shares on the My Cloud.

Don’t have a Mac so don’t know if Time Machine compresses the backup into a single container file or not (I assume it does however). But I do know the Time Machine program on the Mac will tell the user if it hasn’t backed up and how long ago the last backup was. If one isn’t getting alerted on the Mac to the failed backup they can open the Time Machine app on the Mac to see backup information.