Bet most people didn't know that macOS High Sierra can run a Time Machine server.
#Format hard drive os x for time machine how to#
But Apple still makes things rather easy, you just need to know how to peel back the layers to find it at times. You don't need to do everything with Apple. Remember that Mac's are still UNIX and they play extremely well with UNIX/Linux and when there is a will there is a way.
#Format hard drive os x for time machine mac#
But you could probably find alternative uses for the Mac mini to do many more things as well. Like a print server and a Pi-Hole (network wide ad-blocker), etc. Heck you could run quite a bit more on a Raspberry Pi 3+ and not even stress it much. It's quite a bit overkill in overhead and cost considering you can do the same with even an old Raspberry Pi and Netatalk open source project for far less and with far less overhead. It will provide the intermediate Time Capsule like functionality and it will be fully supported by Apple. Just mount the NAS storage on the Mac mini and turn on File Sharing select the mounted NAS folder and right-click it select Advanced Options and check the box to enable Time Machine network location. The supported method is if you were to run say a Mac mini with macOS High Sierra or above you could do it that way.
But I don't recommend this method.ĭefaults write TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
You can do this without a Time Capsule emulation but it's a bit harder and requires you enable Time Machine over SMB on each Mac which is officially unsupported. They run the open source tools to simulate a Time Capsule over SMB (Netatalk). This is how off-the-shelf NAS providers like Synology work.
When doing so from a Big Sur Beta test Mac it creates the DMG sparse disk using AFPS. When I create a backup using the Apple Time Capsule it creates a DMG sparse image for each Mac. For example, my ZFS NAS has a tiny virtual machine running Linux that simulates the Apple Time Capsule. But luckily, there are file systems well supported by both Mac and Windows PC, and they are FAT32 (it might be called MS-DOS on Mac) and exFAT. But you need to setup something to act like an Apple Time Capsule. Similarly, Windows OS will ask us to format the HFS+ formatted drive when we connecting such a disk, let along edit files saved on HFS+ formatted hard disks unless we resort to third party programs. You do not need to format your NAS as APFS. My RAID can’t be used to backup my Catalina APFS volumes. What about formatting external RAID HDD as APFS? OWC’s SoftRaid is waiting for Big Sur to make this happen.
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