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Date:      Sat, 7 Sep 2024 09:51:00 +0000
From:      "Mark Delany" <x9k@charlie.emu.st>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD+samba as a time machine server for OSX/Sonoma?
Message-ID:  <0.2.0-final-1725702660.839-0xb11c62@qmda.emu.st>
In-Reply-To: <8E0CDC45-6521-4973-A349-9B5824C75863@freebsd.org>
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On 07Sep24, David Chisnall apparently wrote:

> I believe this was broken by a macOS update around February.

> > I recently tried to upgrade to samba419 and so far I'm unsuccessful. The error is
> > "The backup disk image could not be created" and I'm running 14.1.

I'm going to ask a silly question here. But why are people running samba instead of
netatalk if they are only using the timemachine backup capability?

I often had difficulting with Samba and timemachine and then I stumbled across an article
on how to use netatalk - sorry, link is lost now, but I can provide configs - and I've
never looked back. Timemachine backups and restores work flawlessly and have done so
across a number of previous macOS versions.

I have nothing against Samba, but it's kinda the swiss-army knife of network file systems
with plenty of complexity, whereas netatalk seems much more specific and simpler. What am
I missing?


Mark.



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