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Date:      Sat, 7 Sep 2024 13:23:11 +0200
From:      Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD+samba as a time machine server for OSX/Sonoma?
Message-ID:  <f424330f-fbf1-49fe-9ced-fb05714af271@netfence.it>
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On 9/7/24 11:51, Mark Delany wrote:

> 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?

A couple of possibilities:
_ they already have Samba and don't feel like installing something extra 
when the former is supposed to work;
_ if I understand correctly AFPS is deprecated by Apple, which suggests 
SMB instead.

  bye
	av.

P.S.
I don't use Samba directly for TM, although I have a customer taking TM 
backups to a NAS, which almost surely runs Samba.



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