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> TimeMachine is free and "good enough" for local / local network backups for most people If you backup to an APFS-formatted network share, Time Machine is qui
by alwillis 3y ago
> TimeMachine is free and "good enough" for local / local network backups for most people
If you backup to an APFS-formatted network share, Time Machine is quite good and much more reliable than it was when backing up to HFS+ volumes. There was a lot of hackery going on to make HFS+ act like a modern file system emulating snapshots, which it didn't have. You could end up with millions of hard links; turns out that was kinda fragile…
APFS supports snapshots and a bunch of other features that makes Time Machine faster and more reliable.
- bwbmr 3y agoIs it possible to have a Linux server provide an APFS-formatted network share? Or does it require a Mac Mini + external drive in a closet?
- pseudalopex 3y agoTime Machine creates an APFS sparse bundle on any network share. Even if the disk is APFS.
- graybies 3y agoYes, I use truenas to serve an apfs bundle over smb on a zfs pool. Works perfectly with no issues.
- smcleod 3y agoYeah you can use any Linux or BSD system. That includes NAS devices like QNAP, Sinology etc… that serve up a network share via Samba or NFS.
- smcleod 3y agoI use TM with both a local usb SSD and a samba network share on my home server which works great - I use XFS on the server but because it’s encrypted by TM it creates an APFS sparse container within the share.