![]() ![]() It is a strange outcome for the old file sharing/NFS/WebDav model and it doesn’t seem the most elegant solution, but sync seems to be the current technology direction. So our relatively small (1.5GB) of shared data exists on the Synology NAS (not baked up) and on both of our machines (so multiple backups). Update : I ended up enabling Synology Cloud Station, including installing the Mac client for both Emily and I. ![]() That image will in turn go back to the Synology NAS Time Machine backup as well as to my local CCC backups. I’ll put the shared files there, then use CCC to put them back on an image on my laptop. Update 2: I’ll rewrite this when I finalize things, but it looks like the Synology NAS gives me the permission controls I need. The AE’s file sharing security model seems to make backup impossible. I could experiment with partitioning the thumb drive on my Mac, but I think I need to look more at the Synology. I thought I also created a Kids user, but I don’t see that Folder. When I switched “Secure Shared Disks” from “With a disk password” to “With accounts” it didn’t wipe my data, it created a Users folder containing the “Parents” folder and hid the existing folders. When I insert the flash drive into my MacBook I can see how it’s organized, including the folders that were on the flash drive when it was “password” access rather than “account” access. There’s no way for me to connect with to the AE shared disk (partitions?) and see everything. So Emily and I connect as “Parents” and see the “Parents” and “Shared” folder, but we don’t see a “Kids” folder unless we connect with that username password. When a client connects you are asked username/password, that gives access to the Folder of the same name as well as a “Shared” folder. From Airport Utility we can create username/password “accounts”. This Apple article partly explains what is supposed to happen. Except free space shows data is still there.” The AE has an operating system with some kind of file system support and access controls, but we have very limited access to it. "When you use Airport Utility to change AirPort Extreme Shared Disk(s) security it *seems* to wipe out everything on the disk. They in turn are backed up by both CCC (to removable drives) and Time Machine (to the Synology NAS). I’m going to stick our unused $20 SanDisk Ultra Fit 64GB flash drive in back of the Airport Extreme. I already use Carbon Copy Cloner as part of our nightly backup, I’ll just back the AE Flash Drive up to disk image on one of the my OWC Thunderbolt 2 dock drives. ![]() Sync solutions mean new software, but perhaps only on one machine. Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive all move our family data into the Cloud - and I’d like to not worry about that. There are lots of options, but nothing is quite perfect. Our home’s options are Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft’s OneDrive, a Synology NAS with or without Synology Cloud Station, Mac LAN based sync solutions (ex: ChronoSync, note MSFT bundles this with Windows), and an Airport Extreme external flash drive. Now that I’ve retired our iMac and gone all-MacBook, I need one of those solutions for a small number of files (MBs, not even 1 GB). Excluding a traditional server/file share the options back then were Dropbox, a NAS, and, peer-to-peer sync solutions. Lifehacker’s guide to home file sharing was written in 2010 for Windows users. ![]()
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