How to Advice/help on setting up Time Machine using 3rd party NAS please

I have a mixed home network with both Macs and PCs. All use a NAS device (Buffalo) to store data. I then back up to another drive which I attach via a USB socket on a PC once a week using Acronis. This is a 24-carat pain. I have another NAS device and would like to use Time Machine to back up (a) The Buffalo (b) The Home Folders on the Macs. Actually I haven't managed anything (a) Time Machine only looks for wireless devices (b) Any documentation I've read suggests Terminal commands which might or might not work, sparse images which I don't understand and the rest... I understood from reading that this can work but I can't see how. Does anyone have a "Painting by numbers" scheme for making this work? TM seems such a clever system it seems a shame to have to resort to a normal back-up program. Thanks for any help!

mouson wrote:
I ... would like to use Time Machine to back up (a) The Buffalo
some NAS(es) can be used as destination for time machine backups, however, time machine will not back up networked drives such as a NAS.
a 3rd party tool like ChronoSync may be able to back up NAS (A) to NAS (B) but i haven't tested this.

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Then you plug it in and go to system preferences>time machine and select the external HD and turn it on.
The backups are automatic.
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Here's a tutorial on [How to set up Time Machine|http://www.ehow.com/how2141709time-machine-mac-osx-leopard.html]
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Check around the forum, you are one of very very many. It doesn't matter what WD say, do you see a Certified by Apple notice on it?
Go here, most authoritative site about Time Machine you can find. http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html
Specific info on Network Drives are here http://pondini.org/TM/2.html
Post back here and ask for Pondini if you need more.
You can also read some tales of woe here

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Time Machine will back up until it fills the drive. The bigger the drive, the farther back in time you can go. What you could do is to create 2 partitons on the drive, one for Time Machine and the other a regular old Mac OS Extended(Journaled). Personally, I'd have at least twice the capacity of the computer's drive allocated as Time Machine (so a computer with a 250 gb drive would get at least a 500 gb Time Machine volume).
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The disk is probably not formatted correctly for Time Machine. There's a free download on my website, 33thingsbooks.com, that describes in great detail how to format a TM disk; you might find that helpful.
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How do I restore smtp mail setting from time machine?
I'm using Lion 10.7.4
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