Time Machine disabled and contstant NAS churning

Synology
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I would like to reverse this:

Also watched your video when setting up.

Let me explain why!

When I set up time machine, even to once daily, I would get NAS activity every 10-20 seconds. 24 hours a day. Totally unnacptable. It is within several feet of me.

I set Time Machine to manual, deleted the link to the NAS on the MAC. Deleted the backup set on the NAS, deleted snapshots on the MAC.

Time Machine on the MAC should be TOTALLY shut off now.

Time machine on the NAS is empty.

I still get disk activity.

I cannot stop it unless I disconnect the MAC from ethernet and it stops!

Please help me stop this activity. I do not care to ever use Time Machine again.

Thanks!

Updates:

I just disabled bonjour services hoping that would help. Did not seem to.

Possible I need to change something here as well?

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I disabled SMB durable handles. Issue persists. This is interesting and maybe involved? I do have no NAS activitiy when I disconnect the MAC.

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Last thought until I hear back:

Wondering if I should delete the Time Machine shared folder on the NAS? Unsure whether to change size limit first. And unsure if anything else should be tried first?

I have undone and disabled everything I can find on both Mac and Nas and still churn. Of course, unsure which device is the culprit.

I’m sure I mentioned but just in case, this never happened before enabling Time Machine No churn, NAS would sleep after an hour of no activity which was often. No longer. Will sleep if Mac is disconnected from ethernet.

Thanks.

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OK, Fixed the churn. Was caused by a utility called Automounter. Once disabled, no more churn!

Then could not getthe NAS to hibernate. That one was caused by an editied etc/hosts file mapping IP to drive name for Automounter.

All good. Hopefuly safe t delete the Time Machine share without doing more then back to whole.