<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Time machine over a network seems to require *something* special. I couldn't get it to work over a simple NFS share for example.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>This document talks about some of the special requirements for the SMB samba share:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/releasenotes/NetworkingInternetWeb/Time_Machine_SMB_Spec/index.html">https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/releasenotes/NetworkingInternetWeb/Time_Machine_SMB_Spec/index.html</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">> The gluster VFS is maintained in Samba, see, e.g.<br>> <a href="https://github.com/samba-team/samba/blob/master/source3/modules/vfs_glusterfs.c" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/samba-team/samba/blob/master/source3/modules/vfs_glusterfs.c</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Ah! That is good to know. I was worried that gluster had decided to stop supporting Samba. Does anyone know how to install this on Arch? There doesn't seem to be a package for it, and it doesn't seem to be installed by default.</div><div><br></div><div>-Andrew</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 9:28 AM Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <<a href="mailto:kkeithle@redhat.com">kkeithle@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 11/13/18 11:15 AM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:<br>
> On 11/13/18 11:06 AM, Andrew Spott wrote:<br>
>> Hello all,<br>
>><br>
>> I would like to use a Gluster volume (3 disks over 3 nodes, replication<br>
>> 3) as a time machine backup solution for a few Macbooks.<br>
>><br>
>> Has anyone done this kind of thing? The Samba vfs_glusterfs plugin<br>
>> seems to no longer be maintained<br>
> <br>
> The gluster VFS is maintained in Samba, see, e.g.<br>
> <a href="https://github.com/samba-team/samba/blob/master/source3/modules/vfs_glusterfs.c" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/samba-team/samba/blob/master/source3/modules/vfs_glusterfs.c</a><br>
> <br>
> <br>
>> (<a href="https://github.com/gluster/samba-glusterfs" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/gluster/samba-glusterfs</a>), and I'm not sure if NFS is<br>
>> supported for time machine backups.<br>
> <br>
> AFAIK timemachine is agnostic about the file system. My own home setup<br>
> uses an afpoe file system mounted from my Airport Extreme.<br>
<br>
Correction: afpfs (afpovertcp) file system mounted from an Airport Extreme.<br>
<br>
I've been hearing for years that Apple has switched to SMB. My AE is<br>
fairly new but I've never found a way to make it do SMB instead of AFP.<br>
<br>
--<br>
<br>
Kaleb<br>
<br>
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