If you’ve used this hint to enable duration Machine backups to non-supported network drives, that tip is for you. In specific, your backups are in danger. I have received a few tip submissions warning about problems with these disks, where everything seems to work fine at first, but when the SMB drive fills up, duration Machine will quickly destroy all of your backups! that seems to happen considering instance Machine can’t free the space inside the networked sparse image bundles (or the

reported space is incorrect). Whatever the cause, Console will show all of your backups being removed once the networked drive fills up.

I have placed a strong warning on the original tip (as that issue is noted in the comments there, too). However, I felt it worth running on its own for anyone who may be using an unsupported network drive and isn’t yet aware of the impending troubles they…

Original post by Michael Rose