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Newly arrived TrueNAS MiniX is having disagreements with MacOS Monterey Time Machine. The new Time Machine dataset is an SMB share owned by <user> with group <user> with rwx permissions down the tree. Mac OS happily mounts the volume and will let <user> create directories and files from the Mac but Time Machine gives the volume a poke and exits with message The selected network backup disk does not support the required capabilities. <user> the MacOS admin user. No secondary users are active.
As usual Apple doesn't want to worry user heads with programmer details so, off to the developer documentation to find this page Time Machine over SMB Specification. This page explains how Apple interrogates the share to determine if it can be well behaved with Time Machine.
As nearly as I can tell, my working incumbent machine Sherman and new machine Peabody are both configured the same with respect to dataset attributes and share attributes. Both are TrueNAS 12.0U8. Backup client is an M1 iMac running Monterey 12.1. And also users and groups for this dataset.
The original Time Machine archive was created with an earlier version MacOS version and the first TrueNAS/FreeNAS version having SMB released to production. Get Info indicates that the original spool dataset is a sparse bundle. Get Info describes the new dataset as shared thusly. At this point I'm out of ideas and in need of a bit of coaching. The get info for the incumbent share on Sherman is also attached. It is the one with the 17:23 time stamp. It was added second.
Yes, Mr. Peabody and Sherman. And Fruit Machine is a British submariner slang for the torpedo fire control system in British boats, specifically the target motion analysis magic. The term dates back over 70 years and remains in use through the cold war and possibly is current slang. Yes, I drove US submarines back in my miss-spent youth. And did some time on strip plot and on the position keepers. We had no slang for the electro-mechanical TMA analyzers at the ends of the alley.
Back to business. Have I overlooked/missed something? Have acts of Apple broken backup to TrueNAS SMB for new installations? This issue is critical path to migrating Sherman to become a replication target for Mr. Peabody. Music and Roon can move first. Thanks for the coaching. Can always replicate from home-brew Sherman to iX Systems Peabody while this is sorted. Sherman is about 5 years old and is beginning to need disk replacements. Plan is to keep him as a backup target for the new one.
Dave Hamby
davehamby@protonmail.com
As usual Apple doesn't want to worry user heads with programmer details so, off to the developer documentation to find this page Time Machine over SMB Specification. This page explains how Apple interrogates the share to determine if it can be well behaved with Time Machine.
As nearly as I can tell, my working incumbent machine Sherman and new machine Peabody are both configured the same with respect to dataset attributes and share attributes. Both are TrueNAS 12.0U8. Backup client is an M1 iMac running Monterey 12.1. And also users and groups for this dataset.
The original Time Machine archive was created with an earlier version MacOS version and the first TrueNAS/FreeNAS version having SMB released to production. Get Info indicates that the original spool dataset is a sparse bundle. Get Info describes the new dataset as shared thusly. At this point I'm out of ideas and in need of a bit of coaching. The get info for the incumbent share on Sherman is also attached. It is the one with the 17:23 time stamp. It was added second.
Yes, Mr. Peabody and Sherman. And Fruit Machine is a British submariner slang for the torpedo fire control system in British boats, specifically the target motion analysis magic. The term dates back over 70 years and remains in use through the cold war and possibly is current slang. Yes, I drove US submarines back in my miss-spent youth. And did some time on strip plot and on the position keepers. We had no slang for the electro-mechanical TMA analyzers at the ends of the alley.
Back to business. Have I overlooked/missed something? Have acts of Apple broken backup to TrueNAS SMB for new installations? This issue is critical path to migrating Sherman to become a replication target for Mr. Peabody. Music and Roon can move first. Thanks for the coaching. Can always replicate from home-brew Sherman to iX Systems Peabody while this is sorted. Sherman is about 5 years old and is beginning to need disk replacements. Plan is to keep him as a backup target for the new one.
Dave Hamby
