Anyway, to get your Mac talking to your Linux box, setup Netatalk like below. I used the script located on this post to generate my sparce bundle and copy it over to my server share.  Once you get to the Sixth step below, you’ll need to create that sparce bundle and copy it to your share.  The instructions below don’t cover the creation of your sparce file for the AFP share, which Time Machine uses. None of that has anything to do with getting an AFP share running, so, moving on. I don’t have to think about, “Well, should I plug in my USB drive and backup tonight?”  It just runs all the time.Ĭ) I also have Crashplan running on that ZFS pool, to save all my local machines here as well. (back when drives were cheap, this makes a powerful and inexpensive NAS)  (oh and I am running this using the zfs-native package on Ubuntu Lucid! Love it!)ī) I love having the network-based Time Machine running, because it just runs whenever I am on my home network. (located here: )  I had a hard time getting anything working otherwise, and that post mostly got things working for me.Ī) I am running a tiny ITX case with a 1.5TB ZFS mirror in it for data integrity.  Last note, I owe a HUGE THANK YOU to post I found on the basic’s of this configuration.  Note that, 1) I am using the source code for Netatalk, compiled and installed, not the Ubuntu or Debian package, and 2) I am assuming you are comfortable with installing software from source.  I will attach my working config files for your reference as well.  Just a very quick how-to on what I did to get Time Machine on my Macbook Pro with OSX Lion 10.7 to save the backup data to my Linux server network share using AFP, rather than SMB (Windows Share), a Time Capsule, or and Apple Server. Novemin Backup / Linux / Mac / Networking / Ubuntu tagged AFP / Linux / Lion / Mac / Netatalk / Network Share / Networking / Time Machine / ubuntu by Greg
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