Network Time Machine Backups: Moving on from the Time Capsule #1640: Notable OS updates, iOS/iPadOS 15.7.2 security fix, Contacts phone number quirk, email from Ukraine, TidBITS Talk emoji responses, holiday hiatus.#1641: LastPass breached, Live Text aids recipe input, fix for failed MobileDeviceUpdater installs.#1642: How to identify phishing attacks, new iPhone and iPad passcode requirements.#1643: New Mac mini and MacBook Pro models, new second-gen HomePod, security-focused OS updates, industry layoffs.#1644: Explaining Mastodon and the Fediverse, HomePod Software 16.3 and tvOS 16.3, GoTo breach.Wondering if this has anything to do with it. I have used Time Machine for many years and know that it should not be this slow, even via USB to HDD. (My initial Time Machine backup is taking an abysmally long time. Why is it doing this even though it ultimately creates an APFS container? When I use Disk Utility to do this, I see the initial message as 'Formatting disk3s2 as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with name Time Machine, followed by 'Initialized /dev/rdisk3s2 as a 7 TB case-insensitive HFS Plus volume with a 524288k journal'. When formatting an external HDD as APFS with Disk Utility in Big Sur, why does it still first say 'Formatting diskxxx as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' with a case-insenstivie HFS Plus volume? I bought a new external hard drive HDD to create a Time Machine Backup.Īpple now recommends formatting any external Time Machine backup as APFS.

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