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Article title is a bit dramatic. The summary seems to be: for the 5% of users who back-up to a network share (rather than direct-attached storage like a USB hard drive enclosure), Apple's default SMB configs on Tahoe are strict and won't work out of the box with many common NAS solutions.

Apple should document such changes, but, looking at the post title, you'd think they were silently corrupting data during restoration.

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> Article title is a bit dramatic. The summary seems to be: for the 5% of users who back-up to a network share (rather than direct-attached storage like a USB hard drive enclosure), Apple's default SMB configs on Tahoe are strict and won't work out of the box with many common NAS solutions.

I'd argue that's not even the main problem. If it just broke and gave you error on each run ("this SMB share is incompatible") it wouldn't be an issue

Is that 5% number real or your estimate?

Yeah, it sounds a bit high to me.

People with laptops that don't want to be attached to a dongle for storage when there's the Internet sounds like < 5% to you?

The original post was about people who backup to a local server, not over the internet.

It's a hand-waved estimate, but let's recognize that Apple actively plans on killing support for NAS targets for Time Machine:

> Time Machine backup to NAS devices over Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) is not recommended and won't be supported in a future version of macOS.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102423

But that's AFP, not SMB. SMB is the future. [edit, that sounds sad].

AFP is what's deprecated, not Time Machine over networks. They just want you to use SMB.

Acknowledged. Thanks for pointing that out.

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