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Mine ran well for like 4 years before it died. I've since move on to a Synology for local backup. I still miss the wifi from an Airport, they were really solid

by vondur 5y ago

Mine ran well for like 4 years before it died. I've since move on to a Synology for local backup. I still miss the wifi from an Airport, they were really solid devices. I'm using a Asus Wifi router now, seems to work fine. I was interested in the Ubiquity wifi AP's but I remember them pulling some sort of shenanigans.

justusthane 5y ago
My parents are still using a 14+ year-old Airport for their wifi.
elsonrodriguez 5y ago
All my Time Machine backups over AFP and SMB eventually results in a corrupted backup set. Have you experienced this at all?
- vondur 5y ago
  I've since moved over to using rsync and not time machine.
- katbyte 5y ago
  Is there anyway to tell if it’s corrupted without doing a restore?
  - tonyedgecombe 5y ago
    https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh26840/mac https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh26840/mac
- tonyedgecombe 5y ago
  Mine has been fine so far although the way it works (mounted virtual disk) does make me slightly uncomfortable.
- yabones 5y ago
  Time machine seems to be very good at eating itself. I think the longest I've seen somebody keep it going is 2-3 years, after that it just rots. For those with a little techie know-how, I think the best solution is to rsync their home directory to a ZFS volume on a TrueNAS box and take periodic snapshots of that. Optionally replicate that volume somewhere else with different geology. Obviously not as convenient as Time Machine, but undoubtedly more robust and less likely to corrupt itself.
  - plorkyeran 5y ago
    I've had no issues with Time Machine after about 9 years of continuous use. I've never tried to use the full-machine restore but I do restore individual files semi regularly.
mckeed 5y ago
Did the Time Machine system alert you when the drive failed? I'm wondering how important it is to proactively replace an old drive if it's just used for backup and I can deal with the risk of the drive failing at the exact same time as I lose the main copy of the data. I guess the question is how long of a time can there be between when some of the backup is not actually recoverable and when you find out that fact. Murphy's Law aside, I need to recover data from backup so infrequently – if the system regularly verifies the backup, I should be able to just wait for the drive to start failing, right?
- vondur 5y ago
  No, the drive was making a clicking sound and I knew it was gone at that point. I don't know if they have Smart reporting built in, but it was basically working then immediately not working.
- busymom0 5y ago
  Mine failed last week after working since around 2014. It didn't give me any alerts except that it was unable to make backups. Trying to format the thing completely wasn't fixing it either. Ended up following an iFixit tutorial to replace the HD with a 1 TB SSD and now it works fine again.
tpowell 5y ago
I clung to my AirPort Extreme for years, and then an Eero Pro 5 almost 10x’d my peak bandwidth. I felt like an idiot for not changing sooner. A set of three is like ~$250 on eBay now. I don’t think the 6’s are necessary unless you have/need a 500MB/s connection.
- zikduruqe 5y ago
  Same here. I've had my 3 AirPort Extremes since the Middle Ages, and just upgraded my house to Eero Pros (Gen 2, found cheaply). As for Wifi, things are just as fast for most of my user devices, BUT my HomeKit devices all now work all the time and respond almost instantly. This alone was worth the upgrade. I still have one AirPort Extreme set in Bridge Mode, and hardwired to the main router so that my Time Machine backups still work with the USB drive hooked to it.
givinguflac 5y ago
If you have a supported model, you should try out https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/ https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/ You can do some fun things while keeping stock UI, like blocking ads network-wide.

by vondur 5y ago

justusthane 5y ago

My parents are still using a 14+ year-old Airport for their wifi.

elsonrodriguez 5y ago

All my Time Machine backups over AFP and SMB eventually results in a corrupted backup set. Have you experienced this at all?

vondur 5y ago
I've since moved over to using rsync and not time machine.
katbyte 5y ago
Is there anyway to tell if it’s corrupted without doing a restore?
- tonyedgecombe 5y ago
  https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh26840/mac https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh26840/mac
tonyedgecombe 5y ago
Mine has been fine so far although the way it works (mounted virtual disk) does make me slightly uncomfortable.
yabones 5y ago
Time machine seems to be very good at eating itself. I think the longest I've seen somebody keep it going is 2-3 years, after that it just rots. For those with a little techie know-how, I think the best solution is to rsync their home directory to a ZFS volume on a TrueNAS box and take periodic snapshots of that. Optionally replicate that volume somewhere else with different geology. Obviously not as convenient as Time Machine, but undoubtedly more robust and less likely to corrupt itself.
- plorkyeran 5y ago
  I've had no issues with Time Machine after about 9 years of continuous use. I've never tried to use the full-machine restore but I do restore individual files semi regularly.

mckeed 5y ago

Did the Time Machine system alert you when the drive failed? I'm wondering how important it is to proactively replace an old drive if it's just used for backup and I can deal with the risk of the drive failing at the exact same time as I lose the main copy of the data. I guess the question is how long of a time can there be between when some of the backup is not actually recoverable and when you find out that fact. Murphy's Law aside, I need to recover data from backup so infrequently – if the system regularly verifies the backup, I should be able to just wait for the drive to start failing, right?

vondur 5y ago
No, the drive was making a clicking sound and I knew it was gone at that point. I don't know if they have Smart reporting built in, but it was basically working then immediately not working.
busymom0 5y ago
Mine failed last week after working since around 2014. It didn't give me any alerts except that it was unable to make backups. Trying to format the thing completely wasn't fixing it either. Ended up following an iFixit tutorial to replace the HD with a 1 TB SSD and now it works fine again.

tpowell 5y ago

I clung to my AirPort Extreme for years, and then an Eero Pro 5 almost 10x’d my peak bandwidth. I felt like an idiot for not changing sooner. A set of three is like ~$250 on eBay now. I don’t think the 6’s are necessary unless you have/need a 500MB/s connection.

zikduruqe 5y ago
Same here. I've had my 3 AirPort Extremes since the Middle Ages, and just upgraded my house to Eero Pros (Gen 2, found cheaply). As for Wifi, things are just as fast for most of my user devices, BUT my HomeKit devices all now work all the time and respond almost instantly. This alone was worth the upgrade. I still have one AirPort Extreme set in Bridge Mode, and hardwired to the main router so that my Time Machine backups still work with the USB drive hooked to it.

givinguflac 5y ago

If you have a supported model, you should try out https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/ https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/ You can do some fun things while keeping stock UI, like blocking ads network-wide.