Re:MacOS may lose data on APFS-formatted disk images
by jrochkind1 on Saturday February 17, 2018 @04:57PM
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A lot of people do make backups to disk images though, especially techies. I believe that remains the only method to use 'time machine' with a generic network connected device rather than an apple branded 'time machine' device? The last place you want an unreliable file system is your backups!
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Re:MacOS may lose data on APFS-formatted disk images
by threeseed on Saturday February 17, 2018 @05:37PM
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Quite a few non-Apple network devices support Time Machine.
I back up every day to my Synology NAS for example.
Re:MacOS may lose data on APFS-formatted disk images
by banned1 on Saturday February 17, 2018 @05:48PM
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Unrelated (sorry for being opportunistic):
How do you like your Synology NAS? I’m considering it.
Re:MacOS may lose data on APFS-formatted disk images
by exikyut on Saturday February 17, 2018 @06:24PM
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Not the person you replied to, but I want to make a case for ZFS on a generic small motherboard. You wind up with Linux or FreeBSD so it's a general-purpose server, unless you want to use something like FreeNAS. And with ZFS, you get snapshotting, RAIDz, checksumming, etc, as opposed to "oh it has RAID 5 woohoo".
RAID (including the software RAID in Linux) doesn't actually do checksumming for file verification. AFAIK, ZFS is the only open system to do so.