WD MyCloud - Using it for 2 TimeMachine backups?

Does anyone know how to use the WD MyCloud to set up for 2 time machine backups? I have one computer and my wife has another and we want to use the MyCloud as TimeMachine for both our laptops.
Any help appreciated -- thank you

Hi, do you solved you problem??
I have a similar problem...
I want to be able to create 2 differents timemachiesbackup folder and use this with 2 different users and give a quota to the two different share, it's possible??
Or if it's not possible, can I set for example 300GB of quota for every users and than I can use a single timemachinebackup folder of 300+300 GB of space (I can set time machines in space in the option menu) so in this way every user have the maximum of 300GB quota.
I don't knwo if we understand me because I'm italian and I don't speak english very well....
Dario

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Sorry to elaborate a bit more.
I have used time machine since owning my mac book pro with no issues. i keep the timemachine backups on an external hard drive made by Verbatim. This has not external power source.
Recently i decided to use up some of the available space on the external verbatim disk drive to store some movie files which were sitting on my macbook pro.
Therefore i created a new folder outside of the time machine backup folder and stored the movie files in there.
From then on Time machine failed... and a few days later i noticed it was not mounting in 'finder'
Therefore i used disk utility to see if it was recognising it. Which i was. However when i try to repair it the repair process fails.
In disk utility i am presented with 1 TB Samsung HN M10 which has a child called Verbatim HD.
The 1TB Samsung hardware appears fine, but the verbatim disk i am unable to fully verify and fix.
Does this mean i have lost all my back ups?
Have I lost all the media that i put on there?
Is there any way to fix this?
Any help would be appreciated.
didier07...

To summarize: You used an external Verbatim HD for your TM backups. Then, you stored some movie files on the "spare" space on the Verbatim drive. Now, Disk Utility isn't being recognized, and repair is disabled. Your home Samsung drive is working fine, but the Verbatim cannot be verified.
The problem, I believe, is that the external Verbatim drive wasn't partitioned. There should be two partitions: one for TM backups, the other for video. That way, you can perform backups, and still retain some space for video or somesuch.
Frankly, I don't know how to fix this except through the following. (1) Erase the Verbatim drive, (2) Create a new blank space and format it, (3) Make two partitions - one for backup, the other for video. (4) Run TM through one partition, but switch to the other for your videos. The better solution might be to have one dedicated drive (perhaps the Verbatim) for backups, and another dedicated drive for video backups; that way, you'll have plenty of space for expansion.
I hope someone will correct me if I'm incorrect, but I believe you've essentially lost your backups and media. I don't know how you can retrieve that clump of the now-undifferentiated data on the Verbatim drive. To retrieve any lost data, you're going to require another external drive that's larger in capacity, as well as data recovery software; don't expect encouraging results. If you're desperate, there are firms like Drive Savers that can offer a more comprehensive solution - at a cost.
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christianfromshaker heights wrote:
Is it possible to use the Time Capsule for both an automatic backup drive for my Mac AND use it as a shared network drive to store my large library of home videos?
basically yes, but i wouldn't recommend it.
If so, does it require partitioning the drive and are there instructions available?
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Alternatively, if I store my home videos on its own network drive, will Time Capsule backup this drive too?
no.
time machine can not back up from network drives.
To be specific, I'm looking for a networked drive solution that allows me to do the following:
1) automatically back up my Mac
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consider a NAS that is time machine compatible.
3) have the ability to watch the home videos on both my family room Apple TV (is this even possible?) and my kitchen Mac Mini display (would my Mac's iMovie's library be able to include my home video content that is stored on a network drive, or does it require the content to be on the Mac hard drive?).
it's possible to stream content stored on a TC (or NAS) to TV. using home sharing, your mini would be able to access files in homeshared libraries.
it doesn't matter where the files are stored as long as iTunes knows they are there. in other words, the content needs to be in an iTunes/TV friednly format and in your iTunes library - that doesn't mean the content can't be stored on an external HD, a TC, or a NAS.
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What can Time Machine back up, and where can it put it’s backups?
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Time Machine can use either an entire external disk or a partition of that disk:
OS X Mountain Lion: Disks you can use with Time Machine
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11171
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If the disk is partitioned using the Master Boot Record (MBR) partition type, some partitions may not be available for use with Time Machine. The GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition type is recommended.
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I am planning to buy a TC 2TB.
I would like to know if the TC can be used as a Time Machine backup device and for storage simultaneously?
for example:
Can I use 1TB for Time Machine backups and 1TB for storage.
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You need to format a external drive using Apple's Disk Utility
Partition 1
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Before OS X can be installed or cloned onto the drive, or else it can't be booted from.
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Hi
I am in the process of ordering a Mac Pro (two 2.26GHz Quad Core, 12GB) and will be using four 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda hard drives. I have read many posts on these discussion pages relating to RAID, etc but can't seem to find an answer to my query.
Is it possible and effective to stripe two drives together and use that as my boot/files and then stripe the other two and use that as a timemachine backup.
Also is Apple's in-built software RAID able to do this and without much strain on the CPU?? The £560 RAID card is not looking to pleasing to my wallet!
Many thanks in advance and apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.

Time Machine does not benefit from anything other than mirror perhaps, and even then, I prefer to have two backups sets as a priority, and only then go with mirror.
I can think of better uses for internal drives than to have two devoted just to TimeMachine.
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Michelin Tire Corporation
At Michelin, we are trying to implement a failover
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We understand that we need to use HACMP (Clustering) and
Oracle's parallel server. This way the DB Service objects
on two different computer nodes can access the same database.
Has anyone used this configuration? If so, have you had any problems?
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Thanks in advance,
Thomas Sams

Tommy Sams wrote:
>
Michelin Tire Corporation
At Michelin, we are trying to implement a failover
service object using Oracle 7.3 on RS6000 platform (AIX 4.1.4).
We understand that we need to use HACMP (Clustering) and
Oracle's parallel server. This way the DB Service objects
on two different computer nodes can access the same database.
Has anyone used this configuration? If so, have you had any problems?
and how well does it work?
We would appreciate any information on this subject.
Thanks in advance,
Thomas SamsAt CSI, we have planned to use HACMP with Forte' failover to provide a
high availability architecture for one of our customer.
There are a lot of stuff to consider, some related to hacmp
configuration, some to forte' mechanisms.
In particular we should use HACMP for managing RDBMS backup and Forte'
capabilities to deal with partitions/envs/nodemgrs failover. We have not
take into account Oracle's parallel server at the moment ( althought it
could be a good solution ) because we don't really need to access oracle
from 2 different nodes at the same time, but "just" to have a "realtime"
dbms backup in case of primary server fault.
The architecure we choosen is based on tre AIX server ( 1 application
server, 1 main dbms server, 1 backup server ( oracle failover, envs
failover).
We have started testing it using forte 2.0.h, but we realized that a
more complete functionality will be offered using 3.0 KEEP_ALIVE
features. So I could give you more feedback in the near future.
What type of solution have you in mind ?
Regards
Fabrizio Barbero
Barbero Fabrizio
CSI-PIEMONTE
Cso Unione Sovietica 216
10134 Torino ITALY
tel: +39 11 3168515
fax: +39 11 3168212
e-mail: [email protected]

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