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| From | Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | uk.comp.sys.mac |
| Subject | Re: TM Backups to WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra |
| Date | 2025-03-24 16:50 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <m4dgpqFheqfU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <vrr6e1$gtog$1@alanrichardbarker.eternal-september.org> |
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).
Cheers - Jaimie
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TM Backups to WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-03-24 08:51 +0000
Re: TM Backups to WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra David <David.is@home.today> - 2025-03-24 09:10 +0000
Re: TM Backups to WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2025-03-24 16:50 +0000
Re: TM Backups to WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-03-24 18:32 +0000
Re: TM Backups to WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid (Alan B) - 2025-04-02 08:11 +0000
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