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Warning: Apple Says macOS 27 Won't Support AirPort Time Capsule Backups
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Given that iCloud is not a backup but the actual first line of storage, there is a market for a Time Capsule X HomePod device letting people privately backup their files and run their smart home.
I need something that can be a HomeKit hub and isn't an AppleTV or HomePod
Ah, it's been years, but I remember there was a reason that I changed to a unique WiFi network name and began using the maximum number of random characters for the password (it's a headache to enter manually). Did my action make it any harder to exploit?
But there are already plenty of good NAS devices that can handle both Apple, Windows and Linux devices just fine. Not much special value added by being an Apple NAS device.
This doesn't affect an external drive attached to an Airport router, right? That's what I use for Time Machine.
It will not - that's AirPort Disk functionality, and it still uses AFP, so it will cease functioning in 27. I was using that myself until last year, but moved away in part because the writing's been on the wall for AFP for a while.
Well, I am proving you wrong. I have two Time Capsules (one 4th and one 5th gen.), still being used - succesfully - to back up a Mac Mini, a two MacBook Pros. They have both been running for at least 10 years, and I have had to restore from both. No fixes needed for neither, although I have a “clean up” habit of reformatting the HDDs once a year and re-backupping.
Not at all. The KRACK exploit (Key Reinstallation Attack) targets the handshake process between client and network allowing what was believed to be a secure data stream to be de-encrypted in transit.
There are updates to WPA2-based routers to mitigate the threat but it's a fundamental design flaw that can't be completely removed.
Using a VPN is one solution since that creates a second layer of encryption; decrypting the wifi stream only nets you further-encrypted data.
One is engineering, the other is a codepoint update.
And when you pay Apple $$$, you expect them to not prematurely pull support. In this case, by removing an AFP driver from the OS. It doesn't hurt anything to have it there, but Apple doesn't like supporting old stuff.
They're doing the same with Rosetta 2, removing support for it "because". but even more infuriatingly there, they're keeping it around for games, but nothing else.
🤬 Absolutely nothing wrong with mine. Guess that means attaching a network cable to it. Brilliant. NOT.
As has been noted by multiple people, this will not work either. It's not the drive or how it's connected to the Airport unit, it's that the Airport unit itself cannot serve access to that drive by any protocol other than AFP. The Mac and the Airport will have no way to tunnel file system support once the Mac no longer supports AFP (which is a depreciated protocol and hasn't been actively supported by Apple for years. They're just getting around to ripping out support entirely).
Any good tutorial to do this? I have an early version of Time Capsule (2011?)
“It doesn’t hurt anything”?
Do you think the code maintains itself or something? 😅
That shame. I still using my time capsule for Time Machine. I will need to think if use my Synology NAS or desktop external hard drive. I have not have much luck with Time Machine on NAS in past (before I got Synology) and Time Capsule was working 100% and others was like getting corrupted or disconnected etc.
Mark Gurman floated a rumor that future HomePods may act as a Wi-Fi access point. If true, perhaps the rumored HomePod with a screen ("HomePad") may be able to act as a Wi-Fi gateway?
I'm no file system engineer, but traditionally code that doesn't need to be changed, doesn't.
And considering it would only be used in the Time Capsule, which isn't being updated (thanks Apple) and isn't used for any other purpose anymore, but I don't think it needs to be maintained much.
Like anytime Apple cuts something, it's a matter of them choosing not to spend the resources, not that they cannot.
Honestly I am kind of surprised that my time capsule is still working. I have had this thing for at least 15 years. It isn't my main router since its only wireless N but I still have it on the network in wired only mode and still backup to it hourly with two devices and the original drive inside is still working fine
No AFP also means no file sharing with old Macs. It's been a few years since SMB became the default so the Macs in question would be pretty old by now, but they do exist.
I am shocked mine still works but I have been using it every day since I bought it and it's one of the short white square ones, I think 4th gen. I bought it on Boxing Day in Canada so likely it was 2009 or 2010 that I got it. Never been repaired, original drive still in it, 100% on time for that many years, never an issue, always rock solid. I no longer use the wireless since its only N but I still backup my Mac mini and MacBook Air to it hourly. Seems like things from back then lasted pretty well. I also have a 2010 iMac and a 2010 Mac mini and both still work (other than the superdrive which haven't worked for years). Those have had multiple drive replacements though and they are no longer in use but were for over a decade until they got replaced with apple silicon machines.