Time machine support when AFP is removed from macOS?

[Panda]

Using ConnectMeNow the mounting of the share has worked consistently and reliably. The opening of the sparse bundle however has worked often but not always. I've made the following changes which should improve the situation though it's too early to confirm it.

I've changed the script to add a sleep command (a great suggestion by the developer of ConnectMeNow), so it is now:
sleep 5; open /Volumes/<share name>/<sparse bundle name>.dmg.sparsebundle/

I also noticed that I had 'Prevent automatic sleeping on power adapter when the display is off’ (in System Settings/Battery) unticked. I’ve now enabled it.

(Unrelated, but if you decide to use ConnectMeNow, you may want to change, in its Network Preferences, the default polling of 10 seconds to the recommended 60 seconds to reduce its energy use impact.)


Update: the opening of the sparse bundle has been reliable so far since I've unticked the 'Quick Unmount shares on network loss' option in ConnectMeNow preferences.

 

[bennor]

FYI, in posting a reply related to Time Machine in another thread figured the following link should be posted here as it might be relevant since it references SMB and Time Machine. It may or may not be relevant to this discussion.
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/c...mon-invalid-host-name-fixed.72111/post-684939