Apple Mac help please: our Apple Time Machine is malfunctioning..what to replace with

[Toyman321]

[KatMan53]

I think your question has been answered. And as long as you have the Time Machine software icon still running on your desktop - you can add any remote drive you want to it for auto backup.

[champu]

I’m running a disk station at home. All our computers run backups to it. With my Mac every time it’s on the homes network it’s sees the disk station and automatically backs up. Has the side benefit if being a complete home server and media server that connects to all of our Rokus


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Another nod to getting a diskstation for the hardware part. You can point time machine to it or use Synology's backup software.

I have an older one that is similar to this current model, I loaded it with 4TB drives and I use Raid 5:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1364346-REG/synology_ds418_diskstation_4_bay_nas.html

If you don't need that much space/speed, you can get something like this, put a pair of drives in it, and use RAID 1:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1370969-REG/synology_ds218j_2_bay_nas_diskstation.html

edit: oops, sorry didn't see this was a zombie thread.

[Rvg2151]

Most USB External drives will do the trick just make sure its USB 3.0 at least if your just backing up one mac. The synology solutions is the most cost effective IMO for a network time machine backup but remember that either solution I mentioned is just one backup and as a rule in IT or computers you should have at least 2 separate backups of everything because hardware does fail and no one backup solution is fool proof.