Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) allows you to back up a machine running Apple OS X via Time Machine to a Synology NAS device. This lets you back up many computers running OS X to a single NAS.
OS X support for NAS devices has improved in recent years. Time Machine attempts to mount the NAS volume, mount the sparsebundle file, then backup into the sparsebundle.
The last time I used Evernote on my Mac was Evernote 4.3.1 (circa 2012 I believe). I had accumulated over 5000 notes. In an act of supreme cleverness, instead of actually archiving those notes in the Evernote enex format, I just backed up my entire home directory, knowing that all my notes were safely stored somewhere in the ~/Library hierarchy.
When I finally got enough gumption on my new laptop to install Evernote, I found that the latest version could not read the native 4.3.1 format from the ~/Library hierarchy. Doom.
For several weeks I’ve had a 69 GB chunk of disk missing. No scanner could detect where it had gone (DaisyDisk, WhatSize, Finder, “About This Mac → Storage”, Disk Utility (also in Recovery mode), command-line utilities df and du): they all indicated that there was only 18G left and none of them could tell me where the missing 69G was.
I have an encrypted boot volume and thought that perhaps something had been corrupted, but I wasn’t sure. I haven’t ever seen anything like this before. I remembered fsck from my happy FreeBSD days, so I thought I would single-user boot and run an fsck_hfs to see what might come up, but first I needed to figure out which disk was the right one to scan; Disk Utility helped with that: select the primary volume (mine is the default “Macintosh HD”) and notice the “Device” in the bottom left corner: disk1
Apple removed the OpenSSL header files in “El Capitan”, making it hard to build OpenSSL-dependent libraries without modifying your system a little bit.
Fortunately we have Homebrew; if you don’t have it yet, go ahead and install it now. I’ll wait here.
I made these notes as a result of my experimentation with a Raspberry Pi. I kept messing up the software on the SD card and needed to start over, but it took a long time to go through all of the RPi setup steps. By copying the partitions, I was able to restore relatively quickly.
Get the info of each partition you want to copy on your SD card using diskutil: