#Mac backup guru vs superduper software#

It is also the only 3rd-party software which can make incremental snapshots of your disk, which creates daily copies of your startup disk on an external disk and allows you to go back to prior versions of documents or deleted documents. It is the only software which has the ease-of-use to allow you to copy and paste anything – even a bootable volume – using the contextual menu in the Finder (OS X 10.10 Yosemite and later only). (And just because they get created per user, i use machine names for users on the truenas side.Mac Backup Guru lets you copy and paste a bootable volume in the Finder, or make incremental snapshots. The time machine bundles will appear as child data sets - per user - right under your general time machine dataset. (And just because they get created per user, i use machine names for users on the truenas side.) Add your new backup target on your mac(s). Activate mDNS under Network -> Global Config -> 'Service Announcement'. Don't forget to select 'apply user' and 'apply group' beneath the drop down menu. Assign the file ownership (upper half to the left) to the master user (and group), you just created. Configure ACL by choosing 'Default ACL' -> 'RESTRICTED'. Add smb-share and choose purpose 'Multi-user time machine'.

#Mac backup guru vs superduper mac#

Add user/s (i prefer one user for each mac client using the client's machine name as the user and another additional one, a general Time Machine account for the 'mother dataset' that one master user would be enough, if you just got one machine to backup) the defaults are ok, since they are 'smb only'. I guess macOS sees that it is a time machine backup and so doesn’t display it.

I thought about changing it to something with the user and Hostname but I didn’t.Ĭuriously, the share does NOT show up on my desktop. One option I thought about changing was the %U. The Mac is now happy using it as the time machine backup. Last time I set up the ACLs, hit the HOME preset, and perhaps did other things but I don’t think so. When I click save it then has a pop up asking if I want to set up the ACLs. I looked at the advanced options but I’m 99% sure I didn’t change anything. Then created an SMP share with Multi-user Time Machine purpose. Created the Dataset called time_machine and gave it a 2T quota for it and its children.

I deleted the Temp and time_machine Dataset which deleted the matching shares and started again from scratch. I kept trying to get the existing time_machine Dataset and SMP share to work by adding quotas on the Dataset as well as for the people but it never would work. I wasn’t keeping notes but as I recall, that is all I did and it worked.

I then created an AFP share (skipping the warning) and clicked the Time Machine box. This seems to be a common theme in many of the user reports and debugging. I created a new Dataset called Temp and gave it a quote for the Dataset and its children. I never found a “this is the solution” post. I’m too new to fully understand all the implications but here is what I found.įirst, this seems to be a very common problem and started with 10.12.