Installs netatalk package on Debian so it can be used with Mac OS X Lion Time Machine
Debian
Attributes are in the “netatalk-timemachine” attribute key.
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path - Time Machine path
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used - User that should own the Time Machine path, default root which is obviously not very useful
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group - Group that should own the Time Machine path, default root.
Time Machine refused to use the default netatalk package on Debian to store backups.
Include the “netatalk-timemachine” recipe on the desired node’s run list.
You’ll want to override the default attributes
"netatalk" => {
"path" => "/srv/something",
"user" => "agale",
"group" => "agale"
}
You’ll need to run
$ defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
You’ll also need to setup a sparse disk image on your Mac and copy it over to the Time Machine share.
$ hdiutil create -size 512g -fs HFS+J -volname "Time Machine" `grep -A1 LocalHostName /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist | tail -n1 | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "|" } ; { print $2 }'`_`ifconfig en0 | grep ether | awk 'BEGIN { FS = ":" } ; {print $1$2$3$4$5$6}' | awk {'print $2'}`.sparsebundle
Hat tip to
http://www.trollop.org/2011/07/23/os-x-10-7-lion-time-machine-netatalk-2-2/
And finally - and most importantly - where the Debian package and instructions the cookbook uses came from:
http://www.mikepalmer.net/build-a-netatalk-time-machine-for-osx-lion-using-debian-6-0-squeeze/
- Author
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Andy Gale <andy@salgo.net>
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