End is Near for Time Capsule backups?! Upgraded to Sequoia 15.6 and now receive Time Machine warning message

[MitzEclipse]

Hi all

I use a Macbook M1 with Sequoia installed. I've been backing up to an Apple Time Capsule using v7.8.1 for years.

I just upgraded from 15.5 to 15.6 and now see a warning message: "Future versions of MacOS will no longer support Time Capsule disks for Time Machine backups."

So basically, when I upgrade to MacOS 26 this will be the end of my Time Capsule?

Really love my Time Capsule!

 

[lfaa]

I’ve updated my m4 mbp to 15.6 this morning and the mac automatically already did 2 backups on my external ssd. I didn’t see any warnings

 

[MitzEclipse]

Are you backing up to a Time Capsule?

 

[elvisimprsntr]

Apple deprecated AFP a long time ago and switched to SMB for Time Machine backups. The TC only supports AFP.

Your best option is to buy a consumer NAS with Time Machine built in or your choice of open source NAS distributions. All of which support Time Machine backups over SMB.

I’ve been using TrueNAS CORE and SCALE for years without issues.

I restored my Intel MacBook Time Machine backup to my M1 MacBook without any issues.

 

[benwiggy]

So basically, when I upgrade to MacOS 26 this will be the end of my Time Capsule?

You can still backup to an existing sparse bundle on a Time Capsule in Tahoe: but you can't create a new sparse bundle.

I.e. if you're already using a TC, you can carry on doing so, but you can't select a TC as a new backup location.

However, it's likely that you won't be able to use them at all in OS 27 (or possibly even 26.3, as Apple does sometimes remove stuff mid-cycle).

 

[MitzEclipse]

Well, I guess it's time to change my trusty Time Capsule - over 10 years old! Shame Apple doesn't make TCs anymore. Need to find the best alternative.

 

[BigBlur]

Plenty of other threads on this topic already.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/afp-warning-on-time-machine-15-6.2462550/?post=34037658#post-34037658

 

[gevalt]

ok...ok...ok... i'm in the same boat. lovely last generation time capsule that works just fine.

my understanding it that tahoe will no longer have support for HFS+ drives even though the sparsebundle is formatted as APFS.

so the obvious question becomes... is it possible to reformat the time capsule drive as APFS and continue to use it that way?

i know that the airport utility can't do it (and based on the warning i'd assume that the airport utility won't even BE in tahoe)

 

[BigBlur]

ok...ok...ok... i'm in the same boat. lovely last generation time capsule that works just fine.

my understanding it that tahoe will no longer have support for HFS+ drives even though the sparsebundle is formatted as APFS.

so the obvious question becomes... is it possible to reformat the time capsule drive as APFS and continue to use it that way?

i know that the airport utility can't do it (and based on the warning i'd assume that the airport utility won't even BE in tahoe)

No, this has nothing to do with APFS or HFS+. It has to do with the AFP protocol. The next version after Tahoe is dropping AFP support.

Your options are to either:

• Use an SMB file share from a NAS or another computer
• Use an external disk plugged into your Mac

 

[gevalt]

No, this has nothing to do with APFS or HFS+. It has to do with the AFP protocol. The next version after Tahoe is dropping AFP support.

Your options are to either:

• Use an SMB file share from a NAS or another computer
• Use an external disk plugged into your Mac

so tahoe is still good to go. 1 more year.