Sayuuk

I... seem to remember doing a full restore from recovery from my old Synology...?? Actually, you know what, that may be BS. I think the last time I used it was when switching Macbooks, and a USB-HDD may have been involved... In that case this whole discussion is pointless Thanks for pointing that out to me

All the guides I've read mention the need to mount that SMB share after login, which may work for a stationary iMac, but not for a Macbook that is on different networks all the time... I hadn't thought of that, it will of course not only add a few files, but also alter existing ones... TBH, my usage case for TM is as a last resort system restore kinda thing. I've never used it to restore some random file I deleted, but only twice to restore my Macbook fully (in 4 years). For that usage I believe the network restore part from MacOS recovery to be more reliable. But, I will look into CCC and other options that do not rely on AFP. => I appreciate all your input! Cheers Stefan

Thanks for the input, I hadn't thought of this before. This would necessitate retiring the SSD as the cache drive, correct? Would it make sense to just enable the Cache for the timemachine drive (in the array) instead? This would add it to the parity again, but at least it would only spin up that drive once a day, when the mover kicks in (the parity isn't queried for the reads during a backup cycle, correct??) Cheers

Hey guys, I'm still new to unRAID, so bear with me I have a pretty simple setup so far (see my Sig.) The 1TB drive I use for timemachine is a very quiet 2.5" drive - which is important because my server is basically in my kitchen The main 4TB drive is a much more audible 3.5" drive. I am now looking into getting a second 4TB drive for parity. Issue: If I keep the 1TB drive in the array (as it is right now), it would spin up the parity disk for the hourly timemachine backups, which I don't feel needs parity protection anyway. So I thought I'd remove the 1TB drive from the array and UD it, but then I don't have the easy (and so far reliable) option of enabling the AFP timemachine share. How do I keep my timemachine on a UD without having to manually mount the timemachine share on my Mac, as every tutorial I've seen so far suggests? My Mac is a Macbook that I travel with a lot, so mounting the drive on login is not going to work, I need timemachine to do that itself (as it does with the unRaid-integrated AFP settings). Cheers Stefan