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roadbusteryesterday at 8:45 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's a hand-waved estimate, but let's recognize that Apple actively plans on killing support for NAS targets for Time Machine:

> Time Machine backup to NAS devices over Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) is not recommended and won't be supported in a future version of macOS.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102423


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BugsJustFindMeyesterday at 9:15 PM

AFP is what's deprecated, not Time Machine over networks. They just want you to use SMB.

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hughwyesterday at 8:49 PM

But that's AFP, not SMB. SMB is the future. [edit, that sounds sad].

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