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Finally set up Time Machine to back up to Ubuntu

thatoneitguy · 2009-02-07 12:58:55

Its actually quite easy. Just install netatalk and set up your shares, set up Avahi (bonjour) to broadcast the server's services. Create the sparsebundle that time machine will use, copy it to the server share, enable unsupported network volumes on your mac and point Time Machine to the shared folder on your ubuntu/linux…

07-02-2009 12:58pm

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thatoneitguy

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Its actually quite easy. Just install netatalk and set up your shares, set up Avahi (bonjour) to broadcast the server's services. Create the sparsebundle that time machine will use, copy it to the server share, enable unsupported network volumes on your mac and point Time Machine to the shared folder on your ubuntu/linux server. Mine is finally backing up to Zeus, god of all other servers.

If you're interested how to do it let me know and I'll give you details.

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