Dave Hamby
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- May 16, 2017
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To date, there is little written about using FreeNAS as a storage pool for MacOS Mohave APFS volume backup by Time Machine. Apple Support articles cover things to the edge of the Apple universe and FreeNAS Guide on Sharing covers creation of AFP shares of FreeNAS datasets.
Things are working as of 10.14.2 but Apple rumblings indicate that AFP is deprecated and slated for retirement in favor of CIFS sharing for Time Machine. At the moment the Mohave Time Machine preferences recognizes FreeNAS AFP but not CIFS shares. I'd like to pitch two suggestions here.
First: That the development folks keep a careful watch on the MacOS Time Machine remote storage use case.
Second: That we start a topic and maintain resources covering usage of FreeNAS storage with popular backup systems. What knowledge there is is scattered over old forum posts and is not up to date given continuing OpenZFS, FreeBSD, and FreeNAS evolution. This would be appropriate subject matter for a maintained HowTo or application guide.
Things are working as of 10.14.2 but Apple rumblings indicate that AFP is deprecated and slated for retirement in favor of CIFS sharing for Time Machine. At the moment the Mohave Time Machine preferences recognizes FreeNAS AFP but not CIFS shares. I'd like to pitch two suggestions here.
First: That the development folks keep a careful watch on the MacOS Time Machine remote storage use case.
Second: That we start a topic and maintain resources covering usage of FreeNAS storage with popular backup systems. What knowledge there is is scattered over old forum posts and is not up to date given continuing OpenZFS, FreeBSD, and FreeNAS evolution. This would be appropriate subject matter for a maintained HowTo or application guide.