3rd party attempts at Time Machine compatibility have not gone well in my experience.
That's not good news. Is this recent experience, or a few years ago? Do you remember the Netatalk/NetAFP versions you'd have been on, then? A bit of googling suggests this was a problem around 2012, but I don't see anything more recent indicating that it's still an issue (or that it's fixed). The bug fix list for recent releases is pretty enormous.
Maybe instead of Time Machine, the better solution is to use the crashplan client, and back up to the NAS (or directly to the cloud). But I thought I read that crashplan requires a working internet even for backups across the LAN.
Offsite, I use Backblaze.
*sigh* Still no linux client.
Ideally if I were to redo anything today, I'd seek out a solution that runs a file system that can detect and possibly stop bitrot
This is my current attraction to a FreeNAS box. ZFS is a wonderful thing. But I don't have any experience running FreeNAS in the long term.
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