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Re:APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS by kalleboo on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:01AM (#24625776)
The number one cause of that error seems to be using AFP for backups. Had the same issue on a Apple Time Capsule and a Synology NAS. Went away on the Synology once I disabled AFP in favor of SMB.
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Re:APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS by sbuk on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @07:10AM (#24626263)
Wasn't AFP deprecated in Mavericks? I'm fairly certain that it hasn't had an update for some time. At this stage, it's certainly advisable not using it for critical applications.
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Re:APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS by kalleboo on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @09:17AM (#24627411)
It probably is (and e.g. you can't do AFP shares of APFS drives), but Apple's SMB implementation is fairly bad, and sometimes the only workaround is to connect via AFP instead (sometimes I've also had much better performance over AFP)
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Re:APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS by azinman2 on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:33AM (#24629054)
Isn’t it just samba?
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Re:APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS by kalleboo on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @08:02AM (#24637837)
It used to be, but Samba relicensed to GPLv3, so Apple switched to a custom SMB implementation
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Re:APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS by formerly_proven on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @01:11PM (#24630334)
Samba is GPL so it is certainly not used by Apple.
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Re:APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS by scottlamb on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:12AM (#24628768)
I'm using AFP. I'll switch. Thanks for the idea!
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