Has anyone else been experiencing issues with TM backups over WiFi using
SMB to NAS drives in the last 2 or 3 macOS releases? My WD NAS was
reliably performing TM backups over WiFi until the arrival of Ventura when
I and many other users started having failures claiming timeouts,
inability to copy certain files even to create sparse bundles on
destination drives. The situation seemed no better with Sonoma. WD claimed there were bugs in Apple's implementation of SMB and offered no further support. So I stopped using the NAS for some considerable time relying on large capacity USB connected drives instead for TM. BTW I've also been performing separate backups via CCC to portable USB drives with no problem for many years. Anyway a couple of weeks ago I fired the NAS up and immediately received a firmware update. In the meantime my MBP has been updated to Sequoia and, bingo! TM backups are working again to my NAS. I haven't found anything (yet) on the WD support site to suggest the
firmware update was particularly related to the problem.
Has anyone else been experiencing issues with TM backups over WiFi using
SMB to NAS drives in the last 2 or 3 macOS releases? My WD NAS was
reliably performing TM backups over WiFi until the arrival of Ventura when
I and many other users started having failures claiming timeouts,
inability to copy certain files even to create sparse bundles on
destination drives. The situation seemed no better with Sonoma. WD claimed there were bugs in Apple's implementation of SMB and offered no further support. So I stopped using the NAS for some considerable time relying on large capacity USB connected drives instead for TM. BTW I've also been performing separate backups via CCC to portable USB drives with no problem for many years. Anyway a couple of weeks ago I fired the NAS up and immediately received a firmware update. In the meantime my MBP has been updated to Sequoia and, bingo! TM backups are working again to my NAS. I haven't found anything (yet) on the WD support site to suggest the
firmware update was particularly related to the problem.
On 24 Mar 2025 at 08:51:13 GMT, "Alan B" <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
Has anyone else been experiencing issues with TM backups over WiFi using
SMB to NAS drives in the last 2 or 3 macOS releases? My WD NAS was
reliably performing TM backups over WiFi until the arrival of Ventura when >> I and many other users started having failures claiming timeouts,
inability to copy certain files even to create sparse bundles on
destination drives. The situation seemed no better with Sonoma. WD claimed >> there were bugs in Apple's implementation of SMB and offered no further
support. So I stopped using the NAS for some considerable time relying on
large capacity USB connected drives instead for TM. BTW I've also been
performing separate backups via CCC to portable USB drives with no problem >> for many years. Anyway a couple of weeks ago I fired the NAS up and
immediately received a firmware update. In the meantime my MBP has been
updated to Sequoia and, bingo! TM backups are working again to my NAS. I
haven't found anything (yet) on the WD support site to suggest the
firmware update was particularly related to the problem.
No, mine have been chugging along fine, to a TrueNAS destination (and a
Time Capsule but you'd bloody hope that'd work).
On 24 Mar 2025 at 16:50:02 GMT, "Jaimie Vandenbergh" <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
On 24 Mar 2025 at 08:51:13 GMT, "Alan B"
<alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
Has anyone else been experiencing issues with TM backups over WiFi using >>> SMB to NAS drives in the last 2 or 3 macOS releases? My WD NAS was
reliably performing TM backups over WiFi until the arrival of Ventura when >>> I and many other users started having failures claiming timeouts,
inability to copy certain files even to create sparse bundles on
destination drives. The situation seemed no better with Sonoma. WD claimed >>> there were bugs in Apple's implementation of SMB and offered no further
support. So I stopped using the NAS for some considerable time relying on >>> large capacity USB connected drives instead for TM. BTW I've also been
performing separate backups via CCC to portable USB drives with no problem >>> for many years. Anyway a couple of weeks ago I fired the NAS up and
immediately received a firmware update. In the meantime my MBP has been
updated to Sequoia and, bingo! TM backups are working again to my NAS. I >>> haven't found anything (yet) on the WD support site to suggest the
firmware update was particularly related to the problem.
No, mine have been chugging along fine, to a TrueNAS destination (and a
Time Capsule but you'd bloody hope that'd work).
Indeed it should!
I bought the NAS in early 2022 on a "special" discount when Monterey was the current macOS version and it worked fine with both my M1 MBA and Intel MBA. Problems started to arise sporadically with Ventura. But with Sonoma and early
Sequoia, TM backups were just not working at all. I downgraded my OCLP'd MBA to Monterey and TM worked fine on that machine again. I preferred to keep my MBP's macOS up to date and settled for backups to USB drives. At one point I considered installing Netatalk which should enable AFP and downgrading the NAS
firmware to a version which also supports AFP!
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