January 19, 2009
Time Machine Backups Through Samba

Thanks to a FUBAR on my part and losing my carefully crafted addressbook on my MBP, I did some looking into finding a way to do time machine backups without spending $600 on Time Capsule and utilizing my already existing NAS device. Turns out that Time Machine with SMB and NFS Shares is very possible with a bit of diddling with settings. This guy got it working with remotely mounted AFP, SMB and NFS shares on a random NAS device.

Also looks like there's an addon for DroboShare via the DroboApps SDK called BackMyFruitUp to add Time Capsule like capabilities, which looks to have potential too.

Now I know what my project tonight will be!





Posted by Arcterex at January 19, 2009 09:37 AM
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Apparently the SMB/NFS hack omits a fairly important part of the time capsule process - data validation. Apparently part of the Time Capsule backup process involves the Time Capsule verifying the data once it's been written and notifying Time Machine that it was written successfully. It's the big reason I haven't tried to use that hack myself.


Posted by: Darren James Harkness on January 21, 2009 8:44 AM
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