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Serious Bug here...
Authored by: dbs on Nov 27, '07 02:51:15PM

I tried this to a Buffalotech NAS using AFP. It kind of works, but not well at all.

Here's the problem I had: when your disk fills up and it goes to delete old backups it screws things up. It succeeds in deleting the old backups (unlike SMB shares) but you loose everything except the most recent backup from the GUI. They're still there on the disk (as far as I can tell). So be forewarned: at least on my AFP NAS this is not an acceptable solution.

(To test this you can make a sparsebundle in the Disk Utility with a small fixed size and name it the same as the one TM makes then tell it to backup just a folder (exclude everything else) and change the name of the folder until it fills up. You can then watch it delete backups and see if it actually works for you. After about 5 old backup deletions it stopped working in the GUI for me.)



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Serious Bug here... (no longer)
Authored by: adamcr on Dec 14, '08 08:43:47AM
This bug used to be around until Apple released Time Machine and AirPort Updates v1.0. Now it's no longer a problem. I verified this and you can see my logs on my Time Machine blog.

Cheers, Adam

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