@roy75 Yeah, that's a lousy situation. Apple really dropped the ball on such a fundamental bit of functionality.

@roy75 The only slim chance for a workaround would be third-party community firmware, like OpenWRT, but for various legitimate reasons, that seems pretty far off. A software update from TP-Link is by...

@roy75 and everyone else: There are no workarounds. Equipment either meets the server requirements for networked Time Machine backups or not. These were discussed on the first page of this thread,...

@C-Link Sorry about that - copy/paste error! I fixed it. I mostly wanted to clarify that there is no need for APFS-formatted drives when backing up to a router-connected drive over a network.

Time Machine backups over a network have a few moving parts, so there is a lot of confusion about what is needed and what will work. @C-Link To run Time Machine over a network, you need a router that...