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I’ve given up on Time Machine. It never seems to work past a month or two for me on my Synology w/ atalk etc.
by op00to 3y ago
I’ve given up on Time Machine. It never seems to work past a month or two for me on my Synology w/ atalk etc.
- jedberg 3y agoIt was always breaking on my Synology too. I ended up just attaching an 8TB spinning rust directly to the Mac and it's been flawless since. Time Machine really doesn't like using remote disks that aren't official Apple gear.
- kalleboo 3y agoEven when I had an Apple Time Capsule, it would break about once a year. It's just a flakey system. Wish they'd add the equivalent of zsend to APFS instead of using the weird "gigantic sparse disk image with hard links in it" system
- praseodym 3y agoWhen backing up to an APFS Time Machine volume it does work a bit like that, at least no hard links are used any more: - https://eclecticlight.co/2021/03/11/time-machine-to-apfs-understanding-backups/ https://eclecticlight.co/2021/03/11/time-machine-to-apfs-und... - https://eclecticlight.co/2021/04/16/time-machine-to-apfs-using-a-network-share/ https://eclecticlight.co/2021/04/16/time-machine-to-apfs-usi...
- kalleboo 3y agoOh awesome! I guess I need to delete and re-create my Time Machine backup to enable this.
- kalleboo 3y agoFWIW Apple has deprecated AFP/AppleTalk and you should disable it on the Synology. It's far more stable with SMB (but still not great)
- rollcat 3y agoDitto. Once I bothered to set up Borg for my other boxes, it was overall much less pain to just use it on macOS too.