SomeWhereOverTheRainBow
Part of the Furniture
I am revisiting this mention to share two threads you might be interested in:Just another random observation that might not be an AGH issue. For fun I have a Time Machine backup running on the router. I have noticed that when a Guest Network is active, it stops the backup disk from being seen to the network and stops the backups. As soon as the Guest Network is disabled, everything works. Figured I'd point it out in case someone else brings it up down the road.

Tutorial - How to get Samba 4.18.8 running on an RT-AX86U Pro running Merlin 3006.102.4_0
I, like others, noticed that my 3006 firmware router was pegging the CPU at 100% when I enabled Samba in the GUI (version 3.6.25). I was using built-in Samba on my RT-AX86U running Merlin 3004.388.9_2 just fine. I had even figured out how to make Time Machine backups work. The CPU issue made me...


TimeMachine, Network Backups, and macOS Big Sur and Monterey
Good article on updates that Apple has done for MacOS 11 and 12 - as of Big Sur, TimeMachine can and does by default, use APFS in the SparseBundle image for networked backups... Note that it will not convert an HFS+ image to an APFS image, to make use of APFS, one does have to start over with...

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