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You can build your own SMB based one using Samba. You can also build your own AFP based one using atalk but I believe that’s the deprecated choice these days.
by beermonster 5y ago
You can build your own SMB based one using Samba.
You can also build your own AFP based one using atalk but I believe that’s the deprecated choice these days.
I use Time Machine to locally connected APFS+ but would be interested to hear of LAN based configurations optimised for performance as non locally connected were always far slower even on g/bit switched
- jandrese 5y agoI’ve been running an AFP one on my NAS for a few years now and it has been a regular headache as Apple breaks it with OS updates periodically. Even worse is that Apples diagnostics are woefully inadequate with missing/useless error messages which makes it much harder to get working again.
- testfoobar 5y agoNAS+[Samba|AFP]+Time Machine has been consistently unstable for me. I could not make it work reliably. My remote backups would regularly be corrupted. YMMV.
- solarkraft 5y agoI've been trying to use it for a while. It worked for a few days, but then up to now it'd want to make extremely slow initial backups (30 hours for 200gb) that would fail to upload at the end (they're there locally, but each time I click "backup now" it does another initial backup). A friend of mine has had a similar experience and ended up using Restic. Which is such a shame because Time Machine is great in theory (though I'm not a fan of the standard UI at all you can still mount the sparsebundle and it would be great).
- johnwalkr 5y agoSame for me.