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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Time machine backups
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 11:58:04 +0000
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On 08/01/2025 02:49, Lars Poulsen wrote:
> On 2025-01-07, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:
>> Bought a 4TB external USB/NVME device for my workstation.
>> Installed Samba and configured it to use the "fruit"
>> module to offer up a Time Machine share for the
>> Mac Studio. (Also using it with Timeshift on the
>> workstation itself, but that part was easier.)
>>
>> (Backups are good; automated versioned backups are better.)
> 
> I have setup "time machine" backups on two of my servers, using rsync to
> a local external drive, but I have not figured out how to do it to a
> Samba share. On the local external drive, using ext4 file system, hard
> links make it very space efficient, but I don't think you can do that
> with a Samba mounted remote drive. Any hints? Do you run the rsync on
> the file server, so that you can do the hard links on the backup drive's
> ext4 file system while the backup server sees its production client as
> the remote Samba mount?
> 
> And is there a way to use a cheap remote "storage box" that is only
> accessible as a Samba NAS as the versioned storage medium with
> similarly good storage efficiency?

Anyioe expecting to preserve an ext4 file system accurately on a samba 
mounted share needs their head examined.
Use NFS.

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