Routing...

Hi,

I am using a WD Live NAS for Time Machine backups of several Macs.

The backup of my main working machine became corrupted and when I =
deleted
the sparse disk corresponding to the corrupted backup and restarted the =
Time
Machine Backup it reported that it would take about two weeks to backup
about 134GB!

I seem to recall that one could directly attach the NAS to the Mac and
things might go faster.

I unplugged the NAS from the router and plugged the enet cable directly =
into
my mac.

I could 'talk' to the user interface on the NAS via Safari and Bonjour.

The time machine software ( in retrospect ) could not see the NAS disk.

So I reattached the NAS to the router and started the Time Machine =
backup
again.=20

This time, Time Machine says only about eight hours=85so ok=85

Now, when I had the NAS directly attached to the mac could I have
simply added a route to the NAS via the hardwired interface ( I normally
use wifi )?

Something like "route add en0 192.168.1.99"

where the 192.168.1.99 is the address of the NAS box.

Would I also have to add a route from the NAS back to the Mac?

Just trying' to figure out a way to perhaps speed things up in
the future :)

Jerry=