I am highly interested in this, especially if it works well with Time Machine to do backups over the network. I've got a fully 10GbE + WiFi 7 network w/ Ubiquiti gear already, would love to ditch my janky DIY NAS setup for something that is integrated with the rest and could potentially give me a better backup setup for my photography as well as enough storage to act as a media server.

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varenc 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I have a UNAS-Pro, which runs the same Unifi Drive software as this, and it works great for Time Machine backups. Dead simple.

I also have tons of other Ubiquiti gear, and honestly there's not a ton of synergy between the NAS and everything else. It's a great NAS though. And also, it's only a NAS. It's not an application server like a Synology NAS.

	▲	ksec an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I only wish UNAS support ZFS.

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fragmede 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wireless Time Machine backup works until one day, Time Machine decides to shit the bed. Do not trust it. Invest in a different backup solution if your data is at all important to you. Something like Arq or Backblaze or tarsnap.

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js2 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I hear this sentiment a lot, but I've not had a problem with Time Machine in years across multiple MacBooks in my household. Backing up to TrueNAS. Unifi networking. It Just Works.

I just checked any my oldest TM backup for the MacBook from which I'm typing is 2023-09-14. This MacBook has a 2 TB SSD and I have the TM volume quota set to 3 TB. TM culls old backups as needed.

The TM GUI is still terrible, but you can use `tmutil listbackups` to easily access backups from the command line.

I also use Arq to B2.

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tristor 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I use the 3-2-1 strategy for backups. I keep one copy off-site by using cloud backups, currently I primarily use Backblaze for that purpose but am considering alternatives for several reasons. I keep a second copy on an external SSD via Time Machine, and I keep one copy on-device. I'd like to use network Time Machine to get rid of the inconvenience of having a bunch of USB external SSDs floating around, especially since none of them are large enough to backup my entire drive if I get close to filling it.

I appreciate the perspective, I definitely take backups seriously for my photography.

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tedd4u an hour ago | parent | next [-]

A 2-drive Synology (e.g. DS225+) in RAID 0 or RAID 1 works fine for this, for 90% less than this beast. Synology documented their optimal settings for Time Machine a couple years ago, too. Hope this is helpful. [1]

[1] https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM/tutorial/How_to_back_up_fi...

	▲	InTheArena 37 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Or if you want something from a vendor butting running decade old hardware configs and trying to lock people into their drive ecosystem, UNas or many other options. Stay away from synology.

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oarsinsync 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think a combination of:

1/ ZFS datasets with hourly (or daily) snapshots

2/ Samba with vfs_fruit

Gives the peace of mind that even when the sparsebundle shits the bed, you can rollback to a suitable snapshot and only lose a small period of backups, rather than having to lose the entire history and start again from scratch.

(I say when, not if, through considerable experience over the last 15 years that it will always, inevitably, shit the bed.)