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Time machine backup extremely slow
I have used ReadyNAS 314 for Time Machine backup for our Apple computers for about 5 years and worked well. For about half a year or maybe longer, the Time Machine backup became very, very slow. It takes days to make a full backup of 200-300 GB.
There are post on this forum that discuss the problem, but there is no solution presented. Since in the manual of OS 6.10 there is still good instruction how to setup Time Machine bakup then I have a hope that it should work.
My setup:
ReadyNAS 314 running OS 6.10.3
MacOS 10.14.6
Router Nighthawk R7000
We use cable for the home office, but occasionally use wifi.
I see that my Time Machine backup is configured with protocol AFP. Recently I tried to change to SMB but then the Time Machine disk could not be found from my computer, so I switched back to AFP. Other communication with the NAS and acess to disk space works excellent. I think this communication is with SMB though.
Appreciate som help!
There are two parts of a VPN connection:
- The VPN "client" which attempts to open a VPN "tunnel" into a host so that all traffic between the client and host are encrypted and thus protected from being observed along the path.
- The VPN "host" which waits for devices to connect.
The OpenVPN that is included in Netgear routers is an OpenVPN host, not a client. The purpose is to allow the router administrator to connect to the router when not connected to the local network. I have OpenVPN configured on two Orbi routers so that I can connect to them and manage them remotely.
NordVPN's host is at various locations in the world. Customers install a NordVPN client on their local computer(s) so that they can connect to the NordVPN in a secure manner and then connect to other internet locations and appear to be coming from Nord. Nord hides their true location.
There is no problem doing both at the same time. A computer in the local network can install the NordVPN client and open a VPN tunnel to Nord at the same time as the Orbi router's OpenVPN host is waiting for a connection from the internet. You devices that are running NordVPN cannot detect that OpenVPN is running on the Orbi. Likewise, the Orbi cannot detect that your device is running NordVPN.
People often want to have their WiFi Router act as a VPN client and have every device on the local network pass through a single VPN tunnel for secure and anonymous access to the internet. Netgear routers do not support becomming a VPN client to do this. There are routers which can do this. Nord mentions several in their web pages. There is even a third party firmware for the Orbi RBR50 (only that model, not on the RBR20) which can act as either an OpenVPN client or as a Wireguard client. But Netgear routers running Netgear firmware cannot become VPN Clients.
Will VPN make a Netgear router more secure? No. As it is, the Netgear router will not accept any connection from the interent. It cannot be "taken over" from the internet.
Hope this helps.
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I consider to change communication protocol for Time Machine backup from use of AFP and use SMB.3 instead.
I guess that means that old backups actually need to be removed, right?
I don't think you need to renew the Time machine backup if you will just switch to SMB. It will only create a new backup if you need to expand the cap.
https://kb.netgear.com/000055135/ReadyNAS-OS-6-9-3-Time-Machine-over-SMB
HTH
Regards
Hi
The key is really to switch from AFP to SMB. What I understand you need to do that both for the Time Machine setup menu at the NAS and also at setting/access for the Home Folder where the Time Machine backup is located. Do not forget to re-start the computer after this!
After reading the following article I thought it was best to delete the old Time Machine backup and start a new one.
I really think Netgear should update their manual and instructions with these details.
By the way I had some initial contact with Netgear support at level-2 but not very fruitful and indicates lack of documentation on the subject.
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