MacOS Time machine

[KTFirst]

Hi. 

I am a new unraid user. I set up time-machine as per instructions (the ability built in not an application). Backups work fine. Plenty of space on drive/share. However Time Machine only backs up a day or two. That is when going into Time Machine I can only access current day and maybe 1-2 day back, even if I backup every day for months. Please advise.

[cosmas]

Hello,

I have the same problems. The timemachine stops making backups. The backups you can see are the backups on your local mac computer. If I try to write on the SMB share from my macbook, everything is fine.

I am trying now to use a drive share instead of a user share, as described here: 

 

[cosmas]

I am also trying to enter a extra configuration for SMB:

 

[Global]
vfs objects = fruit streams_xattr  
fruit:metadata = stream
fruit:model = MacSamba
fruit:posix_rename = yes 
fruit:veto_appledouble = no
fruit:nfs_aces = no
fruit:wipe_intentionally_left_blank_rfork = yes 
fruit:delete_empty_adfiles = yes 

[TimeMachineBackup]
fruit:time machine = yes

 

It is described here: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Configure_Samba_to_Work_Better_with_Mac_OS_X

[cosmas]

On 10/12/2023 at 3:26 PM, cosmas said:

I am also trying to enter a extra configuration for SMB:

 

[Global]
vfs objects = fruit streams_xattr  
fruit:metadata = stream
fruit:model = MacSamba
fruit:posix_rename = yes 
fruit:veto_appledouble = no
fruit:nfs_aces = no
fruit:wipe_intentionally_left_blank_rfork = yes 
fruit:delete_empty_adfiles = yes 

[TimeMachineBackup]
fruit:time machine = yes

 

It is described here: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Configure_Samba_to_Work_Better_with_Mac_OS_X

This solution works for me. Mac time machine works now fine. Its doing all backups and I can find old backups.

 

Furthermore I changed:

 

SMB multichannel: yes
Enhanced MacOS interoperability: yes

[KTFirst]

Hi.

 

So my issue does not seem to be mapping or that my MacBook can not make backups, it does. However, when I enter Time Machine I only see backups going back about 2-3 days, even if it has done backups for a long time... any help/tips on this would be really appreciated.

[fplanque]

Many times, if you reboot your mac and try to access time machine again, it will be able to connect and show you more than 2-3 days.

 

If you have a standard spinning drive for your network backups, you may need to wait up to a full minute before the additional days appear.

 

Personally I opted for SSD+zfs