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Preparing a NAS for backup with rsync I wanted to copy initial data with nfs because of higher transfer speed.

The NAS nfs export mounts fine on a linux box but not from osx 10.5.8. Some search revealed that

• /etc/hosts on the NAS should have an entry for the osx machine [1]
  (e.g. 1.2.3.9 my_osx_box)
• instead of mount 1.2.3.4:/share /mnt use mount_nfs -P 1.2.3.4:/share /mnt [2]
  (or add insecure to /etc/exports on the NAS)