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Then again, SMB especially in its newer versions seems to be a protocol developed by MS with one of its goals being to make third-party implementations as difficult as possible.
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Hasn't the issues always been related to remote Time Machine? I have a usb drive I use and haven't heard of any issues with that setup. Am I missing something?
I lose my Time Machine drive, like, every year or two. Sometimes, Time Machine just goes stupid and I have to wipe the drive and start over. All of my efforts in the past to copy or repair or do anything to a Time Machine drive has ended in folly, so when it starts acting up, I just wipe it and start anew. Other times, it's the drive itself, and I swap it out. 99% of the time, it Just Works. Wiping the drive for me i…
The bar is so low!
Something like [1] can be inspiration.
The author posted a fix, but how do I check if there is a problem in the first place?
I use the same setup and was able to restore some files I recently deleted. My SMB settings in Synology were set to what the recommended settings were already. Not sure what happened in this person's case, but it also seems like he backed up and didn't test the restores. Which isn't good practice.
restic and kopia should work decently, if with a bit of setup, I think both can just mount backup as FUSE filesystem The backup system that silently breaks when it doesn't like something in backend is not worth time