viewing remaining quota synology nas time machine

I found that Time Machine does not handle quota changes. This gives me slightly more flexibility in the way I manage quotas. A ID could be shared across Macs but I decided to go with individual IDs per Mac. I’ll need an ID dedicated to Time Machine backups. So the choices are to use a dedicated volume for backups and allow it to be filled, or use an ID dedicated to backups and set the quota on it.

If there are multiple shares on a volume, the quota is applied across them all for the user. Quotas are user based and apply to an volume, not a share.Shares will use as much pace as available on the volume.Only one share can be used across all computers. A share is assigned for Time Machine in the Synology DSM software.Time Machine is designed to keep backups until a drive is full and then delete the oldest backups to free up space.So I did some more testing and came up with a quota method on existing volumes taht aren’t dedicated to Time Machine.Įssentially, this is the problem to be solved: A dedicated time Machine volume on that was more limiting than I want.

Especially since this coincided with me reconfiguring my DS 1511+ NAS. Greg recently posted a comment to that post, asking about quotas, which got me thinking about alternative configurations. Since then I’ve cut back it’s us, using it only for my Mac Mini. Back when I first wrote about using the Synology NAS for Time Machine backups I had decided to go with a volume dedicated to Time machine.

Viewing remaining quota synology nas time machine