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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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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

TMroy wrote: ↑07 Aug 2022, 12:38 Did you try time machine backup via SMB or AFP?

I had both enabled.