QNAP NAS - mount the TimeMachine share

If you've got a QNAP NAS and you're using the TimeMachine capabilities of the machine, you might be interested to know you can manually mount the TimeMachine share on your MAC at your leisure, not just when you open TimeMachine on your MAC or when a TimeMachine backup is running.

I've shared the info on the QNAP forums and repeating here for good measure.

mount_afp afp://TimeMachine:**PASSWORD**@nas-hostname/TMBackup /Volumes/somefolder

Notes

• TimeMachine is the username, specified in the NAS Time Machine cfg
• **PROTECTED** is the password , specified in the NAS Time Machine cfg
• nas-hostname is the hostname of your NAS
• TMBackup is the Display Name, specified in the NAS Time Machine cfg
• /Volumes/somefolder is a folder to mount to on your MAC