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Time machine can only back up to HFS+ or APFS. When you back up to a Linux server, it creates an HFS+ (maybe APFS now?) formatted disk image then backs up to th
by sgerenser 4y ago
Time machine can only back up to HFS+ or APFS. When you back up to a Linux server, it creates an HFS+ (maybe APFS now?) formatted disk image then backs up to that. So ultimately if the FS was problematic, you’d have the same issue (just inside the disk image).
- kennend3 4y agoI dont think this is the case. I use time machine to backup to a Ubuntu server's ZFS share. Time machine creates a folder for each machine [my first machine.sparsebundle], etc. I can navigate to the "sparsebundle" directory under linux and it is not an image. Works just fine. Edit: this is what is inside "mymachine.sparsebundle" 252G ./bands 35M ./mapped 252G .
- sgerenser 4y agoThat .sparsebundle folder is a sparse disk image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_image What you're seeing is the raw storage for that disk image. If you copied the whole thing to a Mac (or anything that understands MacOS disk images) you could mount it then you'd see the actual files. The filesystem of that mounted image would be HFS+.