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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Time machine backups Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 11:58:04 +0000 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <8b262a1f-507f-ef10-e4d3-a981dca5b7d1@example.net> <4RVeP.812124$bYV2.164030@fx17.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:58:05 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="db7a7601fe62b12a4d45a615e74a0b35"; logging-data="2915148"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/LqskEzreF2AQgi0oSL0hBeeiKQ8wfz1E=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:GSR1IThcLDGd+be42OGbymB7/Ug= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3394 On 08/01/2025 02:49, Lars Poulsen wrote: > On 2025-01-07, vallor 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. -- "Women actually are capable of being far more than the feminists will let them."