I’m not sure what you’re referring to in regards to WiFi Time Machine - don’t. If it’s a laptop and its doing TM to the mini then isn’t that wifi TM?
I don’t know of any good reason not to do TM over wifi…granted it’s slower than a plugged in drive and it backs up to a .dmg instead of a Finder readable drive but it works just fine in may experience. And why would you recommend sticking with Sierra instead of High Sierra or Mojave or even Catalina. Server app is no longer needed, I think that change came along with High Sierra but definitely by Mojave. My mini running Mojave has been happily serving as my print server, file server, and TM server for years…it’s generally up to date macOS wise although it is the last machine in the place to get upgraded. This is probably the last year for security updates to Sierra if Apple sticks to their (I think) normal practice of updating the current and 2 previous versions. Not mucking with a working server is normally a good idea…but if setting up one today I would use Mojave as it is more current and would have no issue upgrading a Sierra installation to HS or Mojave either. > On Jan 8, 2020, at 10:45 AM, Andy Ringsmuth <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wifi Time Machine - don’t. > > ...Mac Mini running Sierra and Apple’s Server app, configured for Time > Machine backups. > > If you go that route, I do not recommend going any higher than Sierra on the > host/server machine.
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