Time Machine on Samba with ZFS Time Machine is Apple's in-built backup system for MacOS. It's probably the best consumer backup option, which really achieves "set and forget" backups. It can backup to an external hard disk on a dock, an Apple Time Machine (wireless access point), or a custom location based on SMB shares. Since I have a fileserver at home, I use this as my Time Machine backup target. To make this work really smoothly there are a few setup steps. MacOS Time Machine Performance ...