![]() a clone as well as a Time Machine backup. On the topic of backups you should always test they can be successfully used to do a restoration and should consider having two different backup systems e.g. Despite this Time Machine over AFP to a NAS works well enough for many people. Worse still the NAS makers may not have the latest version of Netatalk in their products. Therefore Netatalk cannot be guaranteed to be 100% compatible. However where John Galt is correct is that Netatalk have done this via much guesswork as to what Apple are doing and Apple also have a nasty habit of moving the goal posts each time they update the Mac operating system. Most NAS makers use an open source program called Netatalk to provide their AFP service and the Netatalk team have also added the ability for it to act as a Time Machine Server. Time Machine Servers required using an AFP network share. The original Time Machine feature supported using either a local HFS+ formatted hard drive or a genuine Apple Mac running Server.app and acting as a Time Machine Server, or an Apple Time Capsule also acting as a Time Machine Server. John Galt's reply is neither absolutely accurate nor absolutely inaccurate.
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