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From: David <David.is@home.today>
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Subject: Re: TM Backups to WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:10:46 +0000
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On 24/03/2025 08:51, Alan B 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.


You may find this YT video helps you better understand matters, Alan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLGi8sPLkLY