Time machine issues

[chewedpen]

Is anyone having issues with Time Machine? I am having issues setting up a shared external drive on my Mac Mini M4 to use as a time machine backup location, but also want to share the drive for backing up my MBP M4. I have enabled all the sharing options and enabled it in the sharing menu for Time Machine use. But the only way I can get it to work is if I partition the drive into 2 separate drives and dedicate one partition to each machine when sharing it on the mini.

I have a Synology NAS and it lets me use the same folder for each machine, so I don't need to create separate shares for backing up each machine.

Is TM acting as it is now designed? Or am I seeing a bug/issue with os26 Tahoe?

I am moving away from the Synology NAS and am trying to setup a large external drive for everything that is on the NAS including Time machine backups. I would setup an external drive connected to my ASUS router and use that for time machine backups, but the ASUS router does not support APFS that Tahoe seems to force you to now use.

 

[Pecka]

I use Time Machine for back up from my MBP to my Mac mini and it has stopped working since installing Tahoe beta, but I have not investigated why. It says that the back up volume is not available.

 

[ScanPro]

This is copied from he Sequoia age, Well I don't know how much difference it will make here. I put Tahoe on and external drive and a TM on an external drive. Works fine for 3 backups. I didn't do anything other than start Tahoe as usual, signed in to all accounts. Strange message tho, when I went to set up the TM in Tahoe, it said this drive is not recommended (it wanted a 4.99TB drive) I ignored it and all went well as It was a 4TB SSD. I will continue to jump back and forth to keep checking. My TM is just one partition.