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Re: [Leo] Use Time Machine on an NFS mounted disk

Oh cool, thanks! I'll see if the reliability is ok for the SMB share and failing that, I'll just install the netatalk port on FreeBSD and use that.

To be clear, the shared directory on AFP does NOT have to be a dedicated disk or an HFS/HFS+ filesystem does it? You said you were sharing from Linux, so just an ext3 or other native Linux filesystem?
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Not at all. Netatalk by default shares the user folders of the server. My user folders are stored on a separate 500GB ext2 formatted drive. I made my mom an account and setup Linux Quota support to limit it to 10GB (she only has pictures and word documents). When she logs into my server with her username and password, it mounts the AFP share with 9.8GB free just as it would if you mounted it from a Mac. Permissions, long file names, etc are all supported. The ext2/3 -to- AFP translation is seamless.

netatalk does have some quirks, so if samba is working well, just stick with that.


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Hmm... Pretty much of a slam dunk to set up. My only catch was, I had to remember that I have my hostname set up as an FQDN rather than a shortname. The backup program *really* cares about that in the bundle/file name.
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So yours is working over NFS? I need to figure out what's up with FreeBSD's rpc.lockd so I can use NFS instead. Although SMB is working fine so far.
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So yours is working over NFS? I need to figure out what's up with FreeBSD's rpc.lockd so I can use NFS instead. Although SMB is working fine so far.
Nah... SMB. And it's slow as balls. Once it completes the initial sync, I'll see if I can dismount the SMB share and remount as NFS. I'm just a touch concerned that, if I do so, the Mac GUI may or may not let me set the NFS parameters that I need to to make the NFS connection perform well. Having worked with my ReadyNAS and my Sun machines, the ReadyNAS really benefits from forcing it to communicate with a specific set of communication parameters rather than letting it "negotiate" the connection.
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