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Re:Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut by mschuster91 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:41AM (#21594430)
> Time machine's performance has slowly gotten worse and worse, leaving me having to cancel backups just so I can go home.

I'm administrating TimeMachine for my employer. It sucks so incredibly hard on a lot of points:

1) it requires the aged AFP protocol instead of Samba

2) No user-/machine-defineable quota, only one across the whole server

3) Extremely poor behavior in higher-than-10ms-latency scenarios

4) no way of scripting the configuration if one wants encryption of the backup image

5) Audits/reporting? Forget about it.

6) All backup images end up in one directory on the server, no way to specify e.g. the user's home directory

7) Restore takes ages

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Re:Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut by mercutio2 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @10:04AM (#21594729)
Time Machine (and macOS in general) isn’t really intended for large office setups, it’s a personal backup system.

Time machine hasn’t required AFP for years. SMB is in fact the preferred protocol.

The SMB server does require a few extensions not all servers have adopted, so perhaps that’s what you’re referring to?

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/releasenotes/Net...

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Re:Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut by tonyedgecombe on Friday November 22, 2019 @06:57AM (#21604792)
I've found it works really well as a personal backup, it's one of the things that keeps me on Macos. I can't rely on Windows backup in the same way, I have to use 3rd party software.
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Re:Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut by iaml on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:48AM (#21594515)
Samba on macos is also buggy itself. I have to relaunch finder manually every day if I don't unmount all volumes from my nas, because if the device sleeps with mounted volumes, they won't be working until you do so.
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Re:Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut by Khaine on Monday November 25, 2019 @04:40AM (#21626669)
Versions of macOS 10.7 and up no longer use samba. Apple wrote their own smb client.[1]

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/23/inside_mac_os_x_1...

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Re:Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut by ValentineC on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:50AM (#21594530)
Which version are you on? I had that problem until High Sierra (10.13), and now I'm a bit reluctant to upgrade to Mojave (10.14) because it's working great.
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Re:Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut by iaml on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:56AM (#21594618)
I'm running catalina.
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Re:Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut by leemailll on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:57AM (#21594629)
I switched to borg on all my macs, it’s so easy. I think most of the recent backup software is doing better than timemachine, which is really really slow via WiFi nowadays
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Re:Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut by n1000 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @12:02PM (#21596299)
You can use (encrypted) sparsebundle images with a given size limit as backup destination on the server.
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Re:Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut by mschuster91 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @02:39PM (#21598548)
Do you have a guide on how to do this?
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Re:Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut by n1000 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @05:04PM (#21600204)
Unfortunately, there is no up-to-date and comprehensive guide out there. I should write one i guess. I takes some tinkering. This is a good first start: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/turn-nas-windows-share-time-ma... If you’re using a USB drive, I recommend to make the first backup while directly attached to save some time. Also if the server is a Mac (and I believe there are ways to do that with other OSs too), you can simulate a time machine capsule. Now whenever I am in my home wifi my MacBook does automatic backups.
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