After that, click the “Set Time Machine Folders” button. If you want to back up your files via SMB, please go to the SMB section on the same tab, and check the Enable SMB service box.

SMB (Server Messaging Block) is the native file sharing protocol for Windows and is typically used for NAS storage. If your network uses an SMB or AFP disk, but the disk doesn’t appear in the list of devices available for Time Machine backups, contact the disk’s manufacturer. Another note: I turned SMB support back on for 1-3 on the NAS and on one of my Linux machines just did a generic SMB connection and was able to confirm it connected at 1 by default. The performance depends on the read and write sizes used by each client application 1 MB (8 x 128 kB) Now here's the hack.

For macOS Sierra and later, Time Machine uses SMB, instead of AFP, as the default protocol. In this case I want to create a configuration for automatically mount SMB volumes. Next, witch over to the “Advanced” tab, and then tick the “Enable Bonjour Time Machine broadcast via SMB” option (or AFP if you’re on an older version of macOS).

Over Gbit cable speeds for AFP, SMB and SSH clock in at 60 MByte/sec. In OS X Mavericks, Apple will begin migrating from its own legacy Apple Filing Protocol to Microsoft's SMB2 in an effort to enhance performance, security and cross platform file sharing.

– Marco Schuster Sep 27 '18 at 13:54 After testing with Xcode's Network link conditioner pref pane (200msec latency up/down), it indeed seems that AFP suffers heavily from high latency. The Server Message Block (SMB) is a network file sharing protocol that was developed by Microsoft, while Common Internet File System (CIFS) is one of its versions. Apparently there is something that makes AFP over high-latency Wifi super slow. Since Apple has deprecated AppleTalk Filing Protocol, APFS only supports SMB and NFS share points. The problem I have is Time Machine seems to know the pool size, and is not trimming the older backups to stay in the 500Gb quota size I set. In my case, SMB runs fine and no fixes or hacks needed whatsoever. Synology time machine afp or smb.

This will tell autofs to look for a file in the '/etc' folder with name 'auto_smb'. With each OS X update, Mac SMB compatibility has evolved.

These notes describe how to: SMB in current Macs and is supported standard! The key to successful use of both in an Apple environment is to use AFP only for Time Machine backups and to use SMB for everything else. Content of the configuration file. If you want SMB in anything publicly released, just need a few tweaks as mentioned in this thread. And after making your backup, you can use Time Machine to restore files from your backup.

Synology also says the following. With each OS X update, Mac SMB compatibility has evolved.

that could well be a bottleneck.

Note: Some SMB and AFP disks from manufacturers other than Apple don’t support Time Machine. I've been experimenting with Apple's Time Machine backup on my scratch pool (3x2Tb raidz). Time Machine works in Unraid, out of the box with AFP. Time Machine supports both SMB and AFP.

For macOS Sierra and later, Time Machine uses SMB, instead of AFP, as the default protocol. With that said, Time Machine share points have to utilize SMB instead of AFP. SMB has no sleep suspend support: AFP has sleep/wakeup protocol support which means volumes are always connected, sleeping Mac's can be observed via user lists (or swho -c) SMB has no Apple resource-fork and extended-attributes support Time Machine supports both SMB and AFP. SMB has no Time Machine support: Native AFP servers from HELIOS and Apple provide this.

I'm currently backing up my Mac to Unraid over SMB with version 6.6.7. Similar to AFP, SMB / CIFS were developed as native protocols for the parent operating system Microsoft Windows. I guess you use wifi to connect to the Synology?