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Using FreeBSD as a Time Capsule for OSX

 Mon 19 December 2016 by feld

I've had both a coworker and a FreeBSD developer ask me recently how to use FreeBSD as a Time Capsule for Time Machine from OSX. There are a lot of tutorials out there and most of them are non-functional. This is possibly the simplest guide that is known to be working. It uses local unix account authentication for the shares over AFP, and of course it's backed by ZFS.

pkg install netatalk3 avahi-app

/usr/local/etc/afp.conf:

[Global]
vol preset = default_for_all_vol
log file = /var/log/netatalk.log
hosts allow = 172.16.1.0/24 2001:470:1f11:1e8::/64
mimic model = TimeCapsule6,116

[default_for_all_vol]
#file perm = 0640
#directory perm = 0750
cnid scheme = dbd
#ea = none|auto|sys
ea = ad

[backup-mark]
path = /local/timecapsule/mark
valid users = feld
time machine = yes

/usr/local/etc/avahi/services/afp.service:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*-->
<!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">
<service-group>
<name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name>
<service>
<type>_afpovertcp._tcp</type>
<port>548</port>
</service>
</service-group>

/etc/rc.conf:

# time machine
dbus_enable="YES"
netatalk_enable="YES"
afpd_enable="YES"
cnid_metad_enable="YES"
avahi_daemon_enable="YES"

I'm aware Apple is moving away from AFP to SMB, but I haven't investigated what it would take to make this work with Samba instead of Netatalk.

Java KVM Troubles on OSX
Thu 30 June 2016 by feld

I was having troubles on OSX getting access to the KVM at work which is a Dell KVM 4322DS. The connection errors from Java about security settings were not resolved by whitelisting the site in the Java console. Turns out newer Java disables some SSL/TLS algorithms and settings that …

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Fixing Time Machine / Netatalk (error (null))
Fri 19 February 2016 by feld

Recently I was setting up a new Time Machine backup on my wife's MacBook so it would use my FreeBSD/ZFS server. My own personal MacBook was already backing up to it successfully and has been for quite some time. When I attempted to start a new backup to the …

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