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Originally Posted by Turkish Pickle
...main reason other than price for the rPi was that I needed two partitions, one for HFS (apple backups) and other NTFS for general file storage. Heard Synology's cheaper units won't let you do that but also haven't really confirmed for myself either.
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I'm running Time Machine against a 216j (cheapest 2016? model), and it generally works acceptably. There are all kinds of general warnings about trying to run Time Machine against non-Apple network storage, but the only headaches are when it loses touch with a backup and asks to create a new one from scratch. I did a full Macbook Pro restore from the Synology, so I'm confident that it is working. IIRC, it builds a virtual HFS file system on the NAS as a big file for Time Machine to use, so you don't need raw partitions.....