# HG changeset patch # User Dirk Olmes # Date 1392477557 -3600 # Node ID 7f96f80a4beba32a734f6d0c4495079ad05f39e4 # Parent a8dca1344686f202bb5eeae8c1e63cd2f2dcb77e# Parent a8c68c6bbf9c1ff1cb126be603a7cd61e86a48c2 Automated merge with ssh://xanthippe//home/dirk/Projekte/Blog diff -r a8c68c6bbf9c -r 7f96f80a4beb 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 Sat Feb 15 16:19:17 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 diff -r a8c68c6bbf9c -r 7f96f80a4beb content/comments/compiling-the-shrew-soft-vpn-client-on-raspberry-pi/52fbd9f970ac0 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/content/comments/compiling-the-shrew-soft-vpn-client-on-raspberry-pi/52fbd9f970ac0 Sat Feb 15 16:19:17 2014 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Author: jokraehe +Date: 2014-02-12 21:30:49 + +i have the exact same issue as you described above. do you have any solution to share yet?