The supported method is if you were to run say a Mac mini with macOS High Sierra or above you could do it that way. But I don't recommend this method.ĭefaults write TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 You can do this without a Time Capsule emulation but it's a bit harder and requires you enable Time Machine over SMB on each Mac which is officially unsupported. They run the open source tools to simulate a Time Capsule over SMB (Netatalk). This is how off-the-shelf NAS providers like Synology work. When doing so from a Big Sur Beta test Mac it creates the DMG sparse disk using AFPS. When I create a backup using the Apple Time Capsule it creates a DMG sparse image for each Mac. For example, my ZFS NAS has a tiny virtual machine running Linux that simulates the Apple Time Capsule. But you need to setup something to act like an Apple Time Capsule. You do not need to format your NAS as APFS. My RAID can’t be used to backup my Catalina APFS volumes. What about formatting external RAID HDD as APFS? OWC’s SoftRaid is waiting for Big Sur to make this happen.
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