WD My cloud NAS Drive with Time Machine

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mantis
mantis Posts: 17,056
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Hello all,
I picked up a My Cloud NAS drive and would like to replace my Time Machine with it.
I can't seem to figure out how to set it up to do so. I have the drive online , I downloaded the iPhone app and backed up my camera roll on it. I see it on my network and my Mac can see it but Time Machine doesn't see it as a back up drive.
I read online that you have to setup Backups on the drive but I can't seem to figure that out.

Thanks in advance for any help
Dan
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,056
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    Thanks man but thats not the issue. It's the WD my cloud drive isn't setup for Time machine backups and thats what I'm trying to figure out.
    I have setup Time machine many times on many macs but they where always with a Apple Time Capsule which is designed for Time Machine. The My Cloud Home WD drive is just a local NAS drive storage device that says it can use Time machine.
    Setup I saw on the website was for another drive which had a desk top App that allowed you to turn on backups from Time Machine. This one I don't see how you can do that. I'm thinking I got the wrong drive.
    Dan
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,132
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    Possible the way the HD is formatted?
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  • JLStice
    JLStice Posts: 41
    edited March 2018
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    From WD:
    https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=3561#cloud

    If for some reason the time machine share isn't showing, check that it is turned on:
    https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=18624&lang=en
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