Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2023 19:05:10 -0800 From: Craig Leres <leres@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD+samba as a time machine server for OSX/Ventura? Message-ID: <20589e6e-dbb2-7f0b-9f08-3870fdfe18f1@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <7cda0c71-5fe2-722b-4ff9-0b48807b7627@langille.org> References: <a2d69d35-52d1-e347-0430-eb491ddd69a2@freebsd.org> <bfe08f2a-21e9-2a93-daa2-7bcc77ac53ac@langille.org> <7cda0c71-5fe2-722b-4ff9-0b48807b7627@langille.org>
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I finally got a chance to work on this today. The many followups are
appreciated.
samba413 -> samba416 is definitely something I was missing. I think
there was only 4.1.3 when I first switched to samba.
Not sure why netatalk3 stopped working for me. Nice to see Dan's proof
that this is still a viable time machine solution. I think I'll stick
with samba as it may one day allow me to backup my windows laptop.
I am using zfs on the FreeBSD side.
The fruit:zero_file_id situation is interesting but I'm on 13.1-RELEASE
so I don't think it applies to me yet. But nice that I won't run into it
once I do upgrade to 13.2.
I have not previously run any kind of mdns on the FreeBSD system; I
tried my hand at a minimal avahi config that I think works. But I think
this just makes it possible to browse for the remote server from the
time machine settings page. I had previously just been using %K in
finder to connect to server. (Maybe this will help me with windows down
the road.)
I found a different recipe to get at the logs:
log show --predicate 'subsystem == "com.apple.TimeMachine"' --info
--last 6h | grep -F 'eMac' | grep -Fv 'etat' | awk -F']' '{print
substr($0,1,19), $NF}'
Something that popped out right away is that the mac was trying to get
into a uuid named directory in
'file:///Volumes/.timemachine/XYZ._smb._tcp.local.' that did not exist.
Then I found many "Backup of <HOST> <N>" directories in /Volumes. This
all made me think that the mac was trying to continue using the
pre-ventura backup so I nuked the files that were in that directory (and
the failed files on the server) and rebooted the mac. After re-adding
the remote volume, I have a time machine backup in progress for the
first time since 2021.
Thanks to all; freebsd-hackers (as usual) for the win!
Craig
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