Pete Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Is anyone using Time Machine with an AFP User-Share that is spread over several disks? For this to work the User-Shares must support hard links, which I hardly believe they do. Worst case would be, if UNRAID switches to another disk in the middle of an update. I'd like hear about any real-world experience with such a setup. Apple released a new version of Server, which now advertises SMB3 as the default file sharing protocol. Consequently it offers to do Time Machine Backups over SMB3. unRAID Version 6 supports SMB3. Does that mean, I could do Time Machine Backups to an unRAID Server over SMB right now, at least from a Mac running Yosemite? Or does the SMB3 implementation in unRAID need some tweaks for storing Time Machine Backups? Pete Quote Link to comment
barakthecat Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 When Time Machine backs up to a network disk, it is written to a sparse disk image, so the underlying file system doesn't have to support hard links as everything is saved as a new band inside the sparsebundle. Everything I have seen on using unRAID as a Time Machine location suggests binding it to a single disk. I've tried using the cache drive, but have had several issues with the archive getting corrupted, so right now I am keeping it simple by binding it to a single drive and not using the cache to see how it goes. As far as I can see from the Yosemite server documentation, Time Machine is still bound to AFP, I don't think it uses SMB3 (yet?). For $20, I may get the Server upgrade and try it on my Yosemite VM on unRAID and experiment more with it. Quote Link to comment
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