Enabled Bonjour Service Discovery and Bonjour Time Machine broadcast via SMB.I have SMB enabled only - AFP is disabled.Granted read/write access to Time machine file share and set quota of 3TB.Standard user with a strong, random password.Encryption is disabled (for now - would like to have it but want to be able to get backups working first).
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Time Machine stated: 'Waiting to complete first backup'. No error message but not even near completion. After several GB of data transfer the backup stopped. I was able to discover the Time Machine folder on my NAS and TM started it's initial backup.
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My first attempt to get this to work, was by following Synology's instructions. So, I am trying to backup 1.6TB at the moment via Time Machine as the initial backup. I am trying to perform a backup of my internal SSD (500GB), as well as my my external HDD (around 1.1 TB of data). So far, each Mac has been backed up on individual hard drives. I recently bought a NAS (Synology DS218+) to help with backing up several Macs in my household using Time Machine.