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   From: snipeco.2@gmail.com   
      
   vallor  wrote:   
      
   > At Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:10:26 +0100, snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:   
   [...]   
   > > Meanwhile, now that Apple has deprecated AFP I'm somewhat   
   > > involved in migrating my Time Machine backups setup to SMB.   
   > > This is not trivial so VM games can wait.   
   > >   
   >   
   > Is it MacOS that is serving up the SMB now?  Seems like it would be   
   > "click, click", and Bob's your uncle.   
   [...]   
      
   SMB is standard on Macs now.  The difficulty is that I've been using a   
   couple of legacy Airport Time Capsules that don't talk SMB, only AFP,   
   so I'm shifting the backups of my newer machines (that soon will only   
   talk SMB) from the ATCs to my Synology Diskstation that can also talk   
   SMB (now that I've changed its settings with help from Chatty, yay).   
      
   My legacy 'puters won't be updated so they won't lose AFP ability in the   
   way that my modern machines will.  I'm moving the legacy backups   
   currently in the Synology to the legacy Time Capsules, freeing space in   
   the Synology for my modern 'puters to use and keeping the disk space of   
   the ATCs.  All of that is straightforward enough.   
      
   I keep the backup disks in different parts of the house in case of fire   
   or whatever.  That means that there are several very large sparseimages   
   and a couple of first-time backups that need to shuffle across my LAN;   
   they won't like to be interrupted and will take a few days.   
      
   I also have Backblaze for my main machine; you can't be too careful   
   when it comes to keeping precious data safe.   
      
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