Time Machine Backups with High Sierra!

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GVCCBob Author

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Time Machine Backups with High Sierra!

I just read this on the Seagate web site!

APFS is not compatible with Time Machine on macOS versions High Sierra to

Catalina. Time Machine requires the drive to be formatted Mac OS

Extended (Journaled) for these versions.

This makes no sense to me. I just ran a successful High Sierra Time Machine Backup using a USB HDD formatted APFS.

Also Apple recommends APFS for High Sierra especially on SDD drives. What is Apple doing????

Apple makes everything so complicated and disruptive for their customers.

What is the story?

Posted on Aug 4, 2022 12:58 PM

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Mal-S

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Aug 4, 2022 2:24 PM in response to GVCCBob

For reference here's what Apple says on the subject.

Types of disks you can use with Time Machine on Mac – Apple Support (UK)

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Mal-S

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Aug 4, 2022 1:09 PM in response to GVCCBob

You state that Seagate says APFS is not compatible with TM but Apple recommends APFS.

You have confirmed that you have a successful TM backup with APFS so Seagate was wrong and Apple was right. I don't see the problem. What has Apple done wrong then?

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GVCCBob Author

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Aug 4, 2022 1:29 PM in response to Mal-S

I have not yet tried to restore a copy of the APFS from Time Machine.

I have ordered a 1TB SSD drive where I will try to restore the High Sierra AFPS to it.

Then I will see if I have a working bootable copy of a High Sierra AFPS Mac.

Seagate is a huge disk company why would they publish that statement if is not true.

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