How do I back up my MacBook Pro to a network storage drive?

My Time machine is not working for some time now and I can not back up my data. I recently bought a network-added storage for backing up data from iMac and Macbook Pro. Time machine back up on Western Digital network hard drive did not work. Is there any otehr way to back up all data from my Macbook pro to teh NAS drive?

schmunzelmonster, greetings; Your suggestion is a good one. CCC does create a boot drive which as you point out can be most useful at times. Time Machine does not have that capability but it retains a history of activities and transactions that CCC does not. CCC only retains information as of the last update.
Neither individually is the 'perfect' backup solution individually, but if both are utilized it becomes that. There is no harm in backup redundancy.
My only complaint about CCC is that is is very slow in performing updates compared with Time Machine. Just a nit on my part.
Ciao.

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So eventually you could end up using more data space in a back-up drive than the original drive, huh?
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