>or did Apple finally kill off all initiators for macOS I would assume that'd work fine, because I run my main workstations and a server full time with my home

>or did Apple finally kill off all initiators for macOS I would assume that'd work fine, because I run my main workstations and a server full time with my home folder and various data living off APFS or HFS formatted iSCSI targets served over 10 gigabit from a TrueNAS system. I haven't upgraded to macOS 13 yet since I tend to be a lot more conservative these days about Mac upgrades than I used to, but Xtend SAN at least still works beautifully under macOS 12. I really, REALLY hope Apple doesn't remove that capability without a native alternative (or at least officially sanctioned way to do the same thing). Of course in that specific scenario Time Machine is of limited value (and I don't use it) since why bother when you can just use ZFS snapshots on the NAS side instead. TM has always been too flaky for me to feel comfortable with anyway. Still, could be powerful in some instances, particularly when combined with a hardware gadget setup. Which leads to a response to sibling thread: >Asmod4n 3 hours ago: Can’t do full system restores from iSCSI Linux has kernel support for USB gadgets that can emulate mass storage devices, and that means you can actually rig up a little cheap embedded board to translate iSCSI into something that will look to anything else like a standard external USB hard drive. See for example [0]. Like the author there I use it to work around issues with appliances like consoles or the like that don't know how to natively deal with a lot of network stuff, but it's a pretty powerful tool if you've got a good NAS and LAN setup regardless. Get your full network storage flexibility, snapshots, data integrity and so on that pretty much anything ever with a USB port can utilize natively. ---- 0: https://matt.olan.me/making-a-piscsi-usb-drive-part-1/ https://matt.olan.me/making-a-piscsi-usb-drive-part-1/