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hoodafoo

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Big Sur touts the ability for Time Machine to backup to APFS volume. Is there an advantage to this or does it just remove a restriction? Anyway, the only option on Airport Utility is to format the drive with HFS+ and seeing that Apple doesn't sell these anymore, I'm not holding my breath that they will release a new Airport Utility that has the option to format APFS
 
Big Sur touts the ability for Time Machine to backup to APFS volume. Is there an advantage to this or does it just remove a restriction? Anyway, the only option on Airport Utility is to format the drive with HFS+ and seeing that Apple doesn't sell these anymore, I'm not holding my breath that they will release a new Airport Utility that has the option to format APFS
You do not need to format the Time Capsule as APFS. A new backup made by a Big Sur client will use APFS in the sparsebundle that Time Machine uses when backing up to network drives. This is covered in the other thread you're posting in: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...fs-snapshots-for-time-machine-backups.2243353
 
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You do not need to format the Time Capsule as APFS. A new backup made by a Big Sur client will use APFS in the sparsebundle that Time Machine uses when backing up to network drives. This is covered in the other thread you're posting in: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...fs-snapshots-for-time-machine-backups.2243353
Thanks, I found that thread after I posted this. It kinda didn't make sense that it needed to be on APFS because, people backup to all sorts of 3rd party NAS and Time Machine would need to be filesystem-neutral
 
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