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by hughw 140 days ago
Is that 5% number real or your estimate?
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It's a hand-waved estimate, but let's recognize that Apple actively plans on killing support for NAS targets for Time Machine:

> Time Machine backup to NAS devices over Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) is not recommended and won't be supported in a future version of macOS.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102423

AFP is what's deprecated, not Time Machine over networks. They just want you to use SMB.
Acknowledged. Thanks for pointing that out.
But that's AFP, not SMB. SMB is the future. [edit, that sounds sad].
Yeah, it sounds a bit high to me.
People with laptops that don't want to be attached to a dongle for storage when there's the Internet sounds like < 5% to you?
The original post was about people who backup to a local server, not over the internet.