TimeMachine server

[sirHydra]

Hi!
I am trying to share a TimeMachine drive across my network. It's a 24TB Raid5 drive. I would like to use it with my Mac Mini 24/7 as a TimeMachine server. Anyway, the iMac and MacBook Air on the same network don’t see the drive as an available TimeMachine drive.

If I reformat the drive, I can see and use it with both the iMac and MacBook Air, but not with the Mac Mini. The Mac Mini asks for reformatting it again.

Any suggestion?
I want to use the drive with my 3 Macs. Can't make a partition because of the raid5.

 

[chabig]

I suspect you're setting it up wrong. The 24TB drive should be connected to the Mini and then you share a folder on it. Here are the instructions:

Back up to a shared folder with Time Machine on Mac

On a Mac, share a folder that other Mac computers on your network can use for Time Machine backups.

support.apple.com

 

[sirHydra]

Thanks, I forgot the TimeMachine destination checkbox. Apple hides it well 😂

Now I'm backing up my iMac. I hope Monterey 12.1 fixed TimeMachine issues 🤞