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mynegation on Jan 15, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesyst...

Anything that can run Samba server can be a target for Time Machine backup, google DIY Time Machine. I considered FreeNAS but figured it would be too much time to ste up and went with the Synology Intel box instead, could not be happier with it. Synology has step-by-step instructions for setting it up as a Time Machine backup target.

dmd on Jan 16, 2014 [–]

Be warned that network-based TM is extremely unreliable. (Just google time machine synology failure).

sitkack on Jan 27, 2014 | [–]

I dumped time machine entirely for an rsync based solution. Take a look @ `--link-dest`

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