Interesting. Not so sure this is an Apple problem. Seems just as likely to be a problem with your NAS. If I started getting that I might be inclined to start fresh on that NAS with an empty Time Machine volume and see if the problem goes away. At any rate, always good to have multiple Time Machine devices anyway as additional protection. I also use a USB drive now and then.
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Warning: Apple Says macOS 27 Won't Support AirPort Time Capsule Backups
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So wanting to get rid of tech debt and giving users a YEAR notice on a service thats long discontinued and using older non secure Wifi standards is bad? The last AirPort device launched over a DECADE ago!
My time capsule was the worst router I ever had, needed rebooting at least once per week, not missing this
yep, I'd bet that most of those AirPort devices wouldn't have enough storage to backup most newer Macs anyway.
I never much cared for combination devices for these sorts of reasons. My router is different than my cable modem and different from my NAS/Time Machine device. That way I can update to the best and most current of each and keep the remaining good devices as long as they work well.
It's about time. There are way too many better alternatives than relying on a piece of old technology to protect files.
I tried attaching an external drive to an ASUS router and using that for Time Machine. It "worked" (the ASUS router firmware supports Time Machine) but it corrupted itself within a couple of days.
Now using a Mac Mini with a USB hard drive attached that has basically no other job. Wasn't hard to get it set up. You can use a pretty old Mac Mini (it doesn't have to be on "current" macOS either) and I'm sure you can find a used one for less than the cost of a modern wireless router.
Now using a Mac Mini with a USB hard drive attached that has basically no other job. Wasn't hard to get it set up. You can use a pretty old Mac Mini (it doesn't have to be on "current" macOS either) and I'm sure you can find a used one for less than the cost of a modern wireless router.
Folks, the little startup that could, Apple, just couldn't quite get the Time Capsule to work well with the ALL NEW Liquid Glass design language. Unfortunately, with limited resources and pushing the bleeding edge, Apple just wasn't quite able to get the Time Capsule to be a game changer that delighted customers, so at the very last minute, they had to pull support. But, stay tuned, because as Tim Cook says, the pipeline has never been stronger!
Sad to hear this - I still use the last gen Time Capsule (as does my mother) both as a no-hassle backup device and our main routers (even today, it provides a much more stable PPPoE connection than the ISP-supplied router). Guess I'm going to have to find an alternative solution for both of us now 
I've already run into a Time Machine issue on USB drives as I wanted to copy an old USB drive backup to a new, larger drive to continue using it, but as the original drive was formatted in HFS+, there is no way to format the new drive in HFS+ (encrypted) anymore and you can't convert an HFS+ backup to APFS... Pretty shoddy of Apple not to have a solution for this - just expected to start again and hope I don't need files from 5-10 years ago (or that the original drive doesn't break!).
I'm surprised Apple hasn't launched an iCloud-based Time Machine backup service yet (or at least provided recommendations for how to move to a wireless Time Capsule-like setup).
I'd be well up for an Apple Mesh system, especially if devices like Apple TVs and HomePods could act as nodes.
I've already run into a Time Machine issue on USB drives as I wanted to copy an old USB drive backup to a new, larger drive to continue using it, but as the original drive was formatted in HFS+, there is no way to format the new drive in HFS+ (encrypted) anymore and you can't convert an HFS+ backup to APFS... Pretty shoddy of Apple not to have a solution for this - just expected to start again and hope I don't need files from 5-10 years ago (or that the original drive doesn't break!).
I'm surprised Apple hasn't launched an iCloud-based Time Machine backup service yet (or at least provided recommendations for how to move to a wireless Time Capsule-like setup).
Or they exited at the wrong time and handed over the most important aspect of their devices (WiFi and internet conneciton) to 3rd parties just as all their devices lost the network port.
I'd be well up for an Apple Mesh system, especially if devices like Apple TVs and HomePods could act as nodes.
Same. I wish this headline said something like "AFP-only Time Capsule devices" in it.
I've been successfully backing up (and have verified restoration) against a Samba-based "Time Capsule" for years. I would've been shocked if this functionality completely went away without some kind of replacement.
Of course, it wouldn't surprise me if they did away with it and pushed everyone to dump their Mac backups into iCloud.
I genuinely doubt any Time Capsules are still functioning, unless they've been repaired. They were insanely badly designed and ran incredibly hot as a result of that.
The spinning hard disk inside would therefore die prematurely—and even if heat death didn't get it, the fact that Time Capsules haven't been sold for years means that the disks are almost certainly approaching the end of their life anyway.
The spinning hard disk inside would therefore die prematurely—and even if heat death didn't get it, the fact that Time Capsules haven't been sold for years means that the disks are almost certainly approaching the end of their life anyway.
You realise that base level Macs don't really have much more storage than 15 years ago, right? A MacBook from 2009 had 250 GB and the urrent MacBook Airs have 256 GB (https://support.apple.com/en-us/112623)
I also have an issue with TM to an SMB share. In my case, it won't complete a backup while the machine is locked. I searched, and it's an issue others have as well. I think it was introduced in 15.3 or 15.4. If I start a backup while logged in, it will complete successfully.
It seemed a good solution at the time, today, different story
Yes, but with an asterisk. WPA2's encryption was formally broken in 2017, although it's a non-trivial exploit. WPA3, which all newer routers and most new devices support, solves this.
You're actually wrong. My parents had a Time Capsule for a really long time - he died last year, and his TC is still sitting there, waiting for a backup. Hard drives actually last a pretty long time, as long as they aren't from the Seagate 3TB era.
Apple's networking gear was pretty good. I still have a couple of AirPort Expresses around as airplay destinations and as my 2.4ghz IoT network and a couple of extremes.
Apple could open up the hardware to third-party server software or just provide a firmware update for SMB.
Explain their motivation for Apple to do so for products that have been discontinued for a decade.
It's time to find something different. They weren't particularly well designed products to begin, under-specced and underpowered.
😂 ok, so let me get this straight
Supporting an ancient and long since superseded protocol that an infinitesimally small number of people still use is more important than keeping up with changes to Unicode (something literally everyone uses multiple times daily)?
And they essentially gave everyone seven years notice.