Time Machine backup not working on TOS 5 with a MacOS Catalina client

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gmanghi
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Time Machine backup not working on TOS 5 with a MacOS Catalina client

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Hi,

I have upgraded to TOS 5 on a F2-422 device and noticed that Time Machine backup is not working when using a macOS Catalina (Mac Mini late 2012) client. There is no error message, the backups starts but then ends without any error but being incomplete.

Interestingly it works ok if using a macOS Monterey device (Mac Mini M1 2020).

I downgraded to TOS 4 (because TOS 5 has many issues) and in both cases Time Machine works as expected.


There is also an issue in TOS documentation about Time Machine:

here https://www.terra-master.com/time_machine_backup (and as well in the docs page/site that opens from within TOS 4/5) is referred to "Set "Authorized User". Users who are not on the "Authorized User" list will not be able to use this feature;" but this is something that existed in TOS 3, not 4 or 5 as far as I understand. There is no "Authorized User" option when setting up Time Machine folders in TOS 4 or 5.

Instead it should be referred that any users with write permission in the shared folder being set up for Time Machine backups can be used. but is **important** to refer that at least in TOS 5 the default user (the one set up during TOS installation) can't be used as it won't work on macOS side!
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Re: Time Machine backup not working on TOS 5 with a MacOS Catalina client

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[at=gmanghi post_id=20349 time=1659599592 user_id=5429][/at]

Thanks for the info, I can confirm it works brilliantly on M1 Macs with Ventura. That 2012 Mini is now 10 years old (one of the good things about Macs is they last forever, I only recently got rid of a Mac Pro 4,1 (flashed to 5,1) 12 core Xeon 3.46GHz, with 24GB RAM and for a Mac built in 2009 was still going strong, only the SATA 2 & USB 2 (I had PCI-E cards for SATA 3 and USB 3). Its still in use with a design/print company :)
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Re: Time Machine backup not working on TOS 5 with a MacOS Catalina client

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Did you try time machine backup via SMB or AFP? or you tried both? if one of the file service not work, please try another. Remember to enable the
AFP file service because it is disabled by default in TOS 5.

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Re: Time Machine backup not working on TOS 5 with a MacOS Catalina client

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{L_BUTTON_AT}gmanghi
TMroy wrote: 07 Aug 2022, 12:38 Did you try time machine backup via SMB or AFP?
I had both enabled.
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