Has Monteray changed the way Time Machine backups are stored?
So I have a 5TB drive for Time Machine backups on different Macs. When I ask Time Machine to make a backup, instead of backing up directly to that 5TB drive, it creates a new volume on that 5TB drive and backs up to that instead. So now I have two Time Machine volumes on my desktop.
It never used to work that way; it always used to create a backup.backupd folder on the Time Machine drive and then created a separate folder for each Mac being backed up inside that backup.backupd folder.
What now happens seems to be a backward step as backups are no longer directly on that Time Machine drive.
Furthermore, I now have to mount both volumes on the desktop before Time Machine will backup.
Is this a new 'feature' (or bug) in Monterey?