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...? How do I perform the "Voila!" step, i.e. what's the right chainload command for this? Also, the chainloaded partitions are logical; is this OK? I also have a single off-site NAS disk which contains clones of all the critical workstations on-site. Most of them are Macs, so I can use sparseimages on the NAS for the clones and get easy-peasy incremental clones. I also do this for the Linux box (backing it up incrementally to an HFS case-sensitive sparseimage via rsync), but it's (obviously) a bit of a kludge. Question 3: Is there a UNIX equivalent to the Mac sparseimage that I should b...

...lesystem whereas NAS is not so certain file metadata are not covered like Hard links,Acls and groups and owners. So it is important to turn off those rsync options to scan those file parts on NAS. But sparsebundle on NAS is ok for HFS options. Network backups are always slower but you can see that sparseimage on network volume (AFP) is better according to Mike’s chart. I also develop an rsync based backup app (backupList+) and some users have reported very slow times even to sparse images on NAS but I am not the expert Mike is on these matters. Network issues vary for sure…. Cheers, Rob

...acks up to a Debian 10 server with NetAtalk and Avahi. Since Mavericks macOS has preferred SMB, and given SMB is marginally faster I decided to switch to using SMB for the Time Machine shares. On a fresh AFP share I can start a new Time Machine backup in System Preferences and it will create a new .sparseimage without complaint. If I use the exact same directory (/usr/local/smb), so same permissions etc, and create a samba share, when Time Machine attempts to create a new backup it give the error: "Time Machine couldn?t complete the backup to SERVER.local. The backup disk image could not be create...