New drive for Time Machine

@Barney-15E @VikingOSX

When drives begin to fail and we can't rescue those snapshots... "Time Machine" seems to no longer be an appropriate moniker. It's too bad, I really find it incredibly useful except for this new limitation.

I know that we are now strongly encouraged to move to APFS formatted media for Time Machine, and I am still wondering with non-APFS (HFS+ formatted) disks do we get a Backups.backupdb directory that is moveable?

Have your seen or read this page:

https://ericfromcanada.github.io/output/2021/migrating-time-machine-backups-to-network.html

At the end of the page it talks a little about APFS

APFS backups (macOS 11+)

The bad news is that because newly-created Time Machine backup sets since macOS Big Sur rely on APFS snapshots, it’s not currently possible to clone drives containing them. Using the Finder to drag a Time Machine snapshot from one drive to another gives the “disallow” cursor, asr and other utilities make no mention of cloning snapshot data, and attempting a restore with Disk Utility fails with “Error finding volume with appropriate role in container”. As for SuperDuper! v3.5, it will clone a Time Machine drive to a disk image, but the resulting volume will still appear empty, even though it takes up equivalent space.

The good news is that Time-Machine-NASifier.command still works for creating a disk image with a larger band size than the default 64MB. When run on macOS 11 or later, it’ll automatically create a case-sensitive APFS disk image instead.