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I have a Mac mini running 10.14.5 as a server. In System Preferences / Sharing I set up a shared folder on second internal drive HFS+ formatted drive for time machine backups. Backing up and entering the Time Machine backups works fine from three different clients all running 10.14.5. All backups are encrypted. On the server I can mount the dmg andsparsebundle and read the backup (so I have the right key).

Now I replaced one client and want to restore a backup. During the setup I can connect with my file server user to the server and see all three clients, but when I select one of the clients, I get the message there is no backup"some backups cannot be opened". I never get asked for the encryption key.

Following are my settings:

  • File Sharing: ON at "smb://server.local"
  • Share files using SMB: ON
  • Share files using AFP: OFF
  • Shared Folder Advance: Share as Time Machine destination on, Share over SMB, only encrypted SMB connections OFF
  • Shared Folder Permissions: two user can read and write, admin & everyone can read

I have a Mac mini running 10.14.5 as a server. In System Preferences / Sharing I set up a shared folder on second internal drive HFS+ formatted drive for time machine backups. Backing up and entering the Time Machine backups works fine from three different clients all running 10.14.5. All backups are encrypted. On the server I can mount the dmg and read the backup.

Now I replaced one client and want to restore a backup. I can connect with my user to the server and see all three clients, but when I select one of the clients, I get the message there is no backup.

Following are my settings:

  • File Sharing: ON at "smb://server.local"
  • Share files using SMB: ON
  • Share files using AFP: OFF
  • Shared Folder Advance: Share as Time Machine destination on, Share over SMB, only encrypted SMB connections OFF
  • Shared Folder Permissions: two user can read and write, admin & everyone can read

I have a Mac mini running 10.14.5 as a server. In System Preferences / Sharing I set up a shared folder on second internal drive HFS+ formatted drive for time machine backups. Backing up and entering the Time Machine backups works fine from three different clients all running 10.14.5. All backups are encrypted. On the server I can mount the sparsebundle and read the backup (so I have the right key).

Now I replaced one client and want to restore a backup. During the setup I can connect with my file server user to the server and see all three clients, but when I select one of the clients, I get the message "some backups cannot be opened". I never get asked for the encryption key.

Following are my settings:

  • File Sharing: ON at "smb://server.local"
  • Share files using SMB: ON
  • Share files using AFP: OFF
  • Shared Folder Advance: Share as Time Machine destination on, Share over SMB, only encrypted SMB connections OFF
  • Shared Folder Permissions: two user can read and write, admin & everyone can read
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Can't restore from Time Machine server

I have a Mac mini running 10.14.5 as a server. In System Preferences / Sharing I set up a shared folder on second internal drive HFS+ formatted drive for time machine backups. Backing up and entering the Time Machine backups works fine from three different clients all running 10.14.5. All backups are encrypted. On the server I can mount the dmg and read the backup.

Now I replaced one client and want to restore a backup. I can connect with my user to the server and see all three clients, but when I select one of the clients, I get the message there is no backup.

Following are my settings:

  • File Sharing: ON at "smb://server.local"
  • Share files using SMB: ON
  • Share files using AFP: OFF
  • Shared Folder Advance: Share as Time Machine destination on, Share over SMB, only encrypted SMB connections OFF
  • Shared Folder Permissions: two user can read and write, admin & everyone can read