Assessing Your TimeMachine Backup Strategy

Apple, Backups | October 29th, 2011

Since returning to a predominantly Macintosh household a few years ago, we have been diligently maintaining backups on our shared TimeMachine volume. Everything is being kept current, and it has been comforting to watch the periodic swirl of the TimeMachine backup status icon in my toolbar. However, we have yet to test this backup strategy and it is now getting to the point where it would be good to know that it’s working.

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Building Your AFP TimeMachine

Apple, Backups, Linux, TimeMachine | November 21st, 2010

While it is possible to use a Windows or NFS share for your Apple TimeMachine backups, using the native Apple file sharing protocol (AFP) together with a service like Bonjour to broadcast the file services available you will find yourself with a much better file sharing experience. This tutorial walks you through how to configure your Ubuntu server to serve as an AFP host on your network and then discusses what you will need for TimeMachine to work properly.

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TimeMachine Backups to NFS

Apple, Backups, Linux, TimeMachine | April 28th, 2010

There are a number of affordable NAS solutions out there that can provide relatively inexpensive network addressable storage over NFS and SMB. Using a Mac with TimeMachine, an NFS server can be configured to provide storage for all of your backups. This article will walk you through setting this up, with the assumption that you already have the NFS storage device available on your network.

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