[Gluster-users] Time Machine network backup on a Gluster volume

[Andrew Spott]

Also, this:

> CIFS access using the Mac OS X Finder is not supported, however, you can
use the Mac OS X command line to access Gluster volumes using CIFS.

From
https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Setting%20Up%20Clients/

Makes me worry about the samba support for os x.  Is this still true?

-Andrew

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 8:50 AM Andrew Spott <andrew.spott at gmail.com> wrote:

> Time machine over a network seems to require *something* special.  I
> couldn't get it to work over a simple NFS share for example.
>
> This document talks about some of the special requirements for the SMB
> samba share:
>
>
> https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/releasenotes/NetworkingInternetWeb/Time_Machine_SMB_Spec/index.html
>
> > The gluster VFS is maintained in Samba, see, e.g.
> >
> https://github.com/samba-team/samba/blob/master/source3/modules/vfs_glusterfs.c
>
> 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.
>
> -Andrew
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 9:28 AM Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kkeithle at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 11/13/18 11:15 AM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
>> > On 11/13/18 11:06 AM, Andrew Spott wrote:
>> >> Hello all,
>> >>
>> >> I would like to use a Gluster volume (3 disks over 3 nodes, replication
>> >> 3) as a time machine backup solution for a few Macbooks.
>> >>
>> >> Has anyone done this kind of thing?  The Samba vfs_glusterfs plugin
>> >> seems to no longer be maintained
>> >
>> > The gluster VFS is maintained in Samba, see, e.g.
>> >
>> https://github.com/samba-team/samba/blob/master/source3/modules/vfs_glusterfs.c
>> >
>> >
>> >> (https://github.com/gluster/samba-glusterfs), and I'm not sure if NFS
>> is
>> >> supported for time machine backups.
>> >
>> > AFAIK timemachine is agnostic about the file system. My own home setup
>> > uses an afpoe file system mounted from my Airport Extreme.
>>
>> Correction: afpfs (afpovertcp) file system mounted from an Airport
>> Extreme.
>>
>> I've been hearing for years that Apple has switched to SMB. My AE is
>> fairly new but I've never found a way to make it do SMB instead of AFP.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Kaleb
>>
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