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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 be...

Just chiming in here, I haven’t read all the previous posts so may be repeating… Mike Bombich has a good piece on benchmarks for various source/destination scenarios with rsync. https://bombich.com/kb/ccc3/how-long-should-clone-or-backup-take Note that copying to sparsebundle on local media is as fast as to local disk. Sparsebundle is a mac filesystem whereas NAS is not so certain file

TL;DR: Time Machine cannot create a *new* backup on my shared drive, but can add to an *existing* backup. I'm running macOS Catalina and my Time Machine backs 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