# HG changeset patch # User Dirk Olmes # Date 1391414943 -3600 # Node ID 2a44a3e8d38a0e6ea2906fc99cd16174a72a3a55 # Parent 0d4d403418d0f6bae1f2293a6854dadde75cd89e add blog post diff -r 0d4d403418d0 -r 2a44a3e8d38a content/Linux/osx-backup-on-samba.md --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/content/Linux/osx-backup-on-samba.md Mon Feb 03 09:09:03 2014 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Title: OSX backups to a samba share +Date: 2014-02-03 +Lang: en +Tags: MacOSX + +I've been using a USB disk in an external case to make TimeMachine backups of my wife's Macbook. This approach worked for quite some time but was quite fiddly: take the disk out of the closet, find a power plug for the external case, attach cables etc. My wife would never do backups herself - the whole procedure was just too many steps. + +In OSX native land, there's this [time capsule thingy](https://www.apple.com/de/airport-time-capsule/) that allows to do backups over WLAN. The approach itself looks what I (and my wife) want. However, I don't want to set up yet another device that eats power and does nothing but backups for a single MacBook. + +The web is full of HOWTOs that describe the setup of Time Machine backups to a Linux server via netatalk. However, I don't want to run yet another stoftware stack on my Linux home server just for backups for the MacBook. + +Then I found one [blog post that describes the setup for making backups to Samba](http://www.solvatec.com/index.php/programmierung/250-mac-os-time-machine-auf-einem-samba-server) (this is in german, though ...). This is exactly what I want: I'm running Samba for sharing Music etc. in the local network anyway. + +Now I feel safe again. My wife's MacBook does backups whenever the laptop is active and I don't have to run additional services. \ No newline at end of file