I&#x27;m convinced that time machine over a network is a bad idea. Seems convenient, but if there&#x27;s network flakiness, TM will decide that the backup is bad and force you to create a new one.  And the first step in that process is to delete the existing backup.<p>I had that happen once, when the drive I was backing up was in the process of failing.  It got about 5gb into the new backup before it was totally dead. Even a somewhat flakey full backup is better than 5Gb of a 2Tb drive.