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I have a Drobo in my Amazon cart, was about to pull the trigger until I read this article. Do you know if your NAS4Free solution a viable solution for a househ

I have a Drobo in my Amazon cart, was about to pull the trigger until I read this article. Do you know if your NAS4Free solution a viable solution for a household full of Macs that need a shared Time Machine destination? I'm tempted: it's cheaper, and NAS4Free will keep evolving.

minikites 13y ago
Unfortunately, I have no idea about Time Machine, the one Mac I have is running 10.4 (pre Time Machine). SMB, SSH/SFTP (even set up key-based auth), regular FTP all work great. Transmission works great and has a decent web interface. UPS support seems to be okay, haven't really tested it. DLNA/UPnP (fuppes) crashes all the time and I only tried it with the very buggy VLC for iOS, so I'm not sure how stable it actually is.
- scrumper 13y ago
  OK thanks - you've set me on a big research path here, and hopefully saved me some money (and a few bits).
mynegation 13y ago
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 13y ago
  Be warned that network-based TM is extremely unreliable. (Just google time machine synology failure).
  - sitkack 13y ago
    I dumped time machine entirely for an rsync based solution. Take a look @ `--link-dest`
ellisd 13y ago
I recently moved back to FreeNAS after iXsystems took over the project. FreeNAS includes Time Machine support: http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Apple_%28AFP%29_Shares#Using_Time_Machine http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Apple_%28AFP%29_Shares#Usin...
axman6 13y ago
I run FreeBSD on a microserver with 4x3TB in raidz1, and it was simple enough to set up, and NAS4Free is even easier. I believe it's supported time machine for a long time, though it'll be the annoying disk image based time machine (same as used on the time capsule). It'd be really nice if there was a nice way to do timemachine backups and use ZFS's snapshots. I'd love to see rsync with this ability without needing to write a script to form the snapshot after the sync.
Khaine 13y ago
I don't know much about NAS4Free, but if it can install netatalk, then you can do time machine easily

minikites 13y ago

Unfortunately, I have no idea about Time Machine, the one Mac I have is running 10.4 (pre Time Machine). SMB, SSH/SFTP (even set up key-based auth), regular FTP all work great. Transmission works great and has a decent web interface. UPS support seems to be okay, haven't really tested it. DLNA/UPnP (fuppes) crashes all the time and I only tried it with the very buggy VLC for iOS, so I'm not sure how stable it actually is.

scrumper 13y ago
OK thanks - you've set me on a big research path here, and hopefully saved me some money (and a few bits).

mynegation 13y ago

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 13y ago
Be warned that network-based TM is extremely unreliable. (Just google time machine synology failure).
- sitkack 13y ago
  I dumped time machine entirely for an rsync based solution. Take a look @ `--link-dest`

ellisd 13y ago

I recently moved back to FreeNAS after iXsystems took over the project. FreeNAS includes Time Machine support: http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Apple_%28AFP%29_Shares#Using_Time_Machine http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Apple_%28AFP%29_Shares#Usin...

axman6 13y ago

I run FreeBSD on a microserver with 4x3TB in raidz1, and it was simple enough to set up, and NAS4Free is even easier. I believe it's supported time machine for a long time, though it'll be the annoying disk image based time machine (same as used on the time capsule). It'd be really nice if there was a nice way to do timemachine backups and use ZFS's snapshots. I'd love to see rsync with this ability without needing to write a script to form the snapshot after the sync.

Khaine 13y ago

I don't know much about NAS4Free, but if it can install netatalk, then you can do time machine easily