Time Machine Slow in 6.9.2

I am still running 6.9.2 and have been seeing super slow TM backups of my 10.13 mac.

I did disable AFP, but how does one get TM to use SMB instead? And what's the ETA on 6.9.3?

Thanks in advance!

Hi - You need to 'go beta' if you want SMB on Time Machine - I could not get anything more than a few K backed up on AAFP and 10.13. 6.9.3 Release Candidate 2 is what I am running and it's OK but I would hang on for the proper release if this is facing real users. There are other issues like antivirus... I've had one failure on Time Machine where it had to delete the whole thing and start again so far. 10.12 worked fine on AFP BTW. 

I expect 6.9.3 will be released very soon, so if you are concerned about running beta firmware you might want to wait another week or so.

We’ve posted some KB articles for 6.9.3 including ReadyNAS OS 6.9.3: Time Machine over SMB in preparation for the 6.9.3 release.

Using AFP should still be fine, but once 6.9.3 is released it’d be well worth giving backing up over SMB a try to see if that helps with the performance.

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mdgm-ntgr wrote:

 

Using AFP should still be fine, but once 6.9.3 is released it’d be well worth giving backing up over SMB a try to see if that helps with the performance.

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I'm not a Mac owner, but based on forum posts it's pretty clear this is an important feature in AppleVerse.  

Can we just be clear? My experience with AFP and 10.13.x MacOS (High Sierra) is that it doesn't work in 6.9.2. It's not 'just' slow. It's so slow it would take weeks to complete and as such this is not fit for purpose.  My experience was that over a couple of days running I had backed up a small number of Mb in a 500Gb backup. 10.12 (Sierra) works fine on AFP in 6.9.2. 

Both 10.12 and 10.13 work fine on SMB in ReadyNAS 6.9.3 betas and RC's - I am not motivated to potentially mess up all my time machine backups to go back to AFP and check whether whatever is wrong with it has been fixed - Anyone else have a different story?

ReadyNAS OS 6.9.3 has been released.

I definitely wouldn't go back if SMB is working well for you. Apple is deprecating AFP, so in time one would expect support for AFP will be removing from Mac OS X completely. SMB is the future.

Sure - I understand SMB is the way forward - It works well on two of the 3 machines I am using it for. One is 10.12 and one is 10.13. The third is 10.13 too but the time machine backup is not nearly so stable. I've had to delete the whole sparsebundle once and start again with the 500Gb backup. Yesterday, I noted that tthe the time machine had stalled 'stopping' on this machine. I had to remove the drive on the Mac and re-connect it in time machine settings. OK not a unique error and once again, it's running on that machine and managed to recover with an incremental rather than full backup. How can I monitor this ? I can't see anything 'apple' or 'time machine' in the logs. Please don't tell me I have to go and look over the shoulder of the person working on the machine daily to check time machine has run.... 

Time Machine backups would be monitored from the Mac side of things

So you'd have to have a way of sending the logs from the Mac machines and parsing those, I would think.

Well not quite - there is a piece of software TM Notifier recommended in this thread Time Machine Notifications which would seem to do the trick for $6.99 or $99 for 50 machines ! I've not used it and cannot endorse it (hence the lack of link although Google will sort that out for you). Interestingly the reason that it is recommended almost a year ago is "This is mostly due to the NetGear NAS that all the macs back up to. They seem to be inconsistent in their success/fail ratio, and I would rather not end-users see "failed" notifications " (my bold) - True or False ? It certainly seems to be my experience. All the manual log parsing links I can find refer to previous MacOs versions and the logs have moved since then (and apparently the names of the daemons). Surely this could / should be built into the NetGear implementation?