netatalk is also the wrong solution nowadays. AFP is unmaintained, both on the netatalk side and on macOS. Instead, Samba supports Time Machine backups via the

netatalk is also the wrong solution nowadays. AFP is unmaintained, both on the netatalk side and on macOS. Instead, Samba supports Time Machine backups via the "fruit" (!) extension, which also provides some nice performance improvements for macOS clients. https://manpages.debian.org/buster/samba-vfs-modules/vfs_fruit.8.en.html https://manpages.debian.org/buster/samba-vfs-modules/vfs_fru... TL;DR though: add the following configuration to the global section of your smb.conf: vfs objects = fruit streams_xattr fruit:aapl = yes fruit:metadata = netatalk And under the section for your Time Machine share: fruit:time machine = yes