Apple Time Machine Backup Silently Fails on Tahoe Systems Using Synology NAS
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Summary
The author describes a frustrating experience where Apple's Time Machine backup feature has silently stopped working on their Tahoe machines, despite using a Synology NAS as the backup target over SMB. The backup system failed without any error messages or notifications, leaving the author unable to restore important data after an Obsidian vault disaster. The article details the technical setup and expresses frustration with Apple's recurring issues with Time Machine reliability.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledSo… Here we are again.
It just stopped doing backups, silently. No error messages, no warnings, nothing.
I realized that it had silently broken across both my Tahoe machines.
I use a Synology NAS as Time Machine target, exporting the share over SMB and that has worked flawlessly for years.
Today, after a minor disaster with my Obsidian vault, I decided to restore from Time Machine, and… I realized that it had silently broken.
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