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I've tried to make homebrew Time Machine backup targets (once with a NAS and with a VM running Ubuntu) and both times they initially worked great but then faile
by bkeroack 12y ago
I've tried to make homebrew Time Machine backup targets (once with a NAS and with a VM running Ubuntu) and both times they initially worked great but then failed when the disk filled up. Even with the "delete old backups" setting enabled, Time Machine on the clients would still complain that the disk couldn't be written to and would fail. The only way to fix it was to delete the volume completely (losing all backups) and start from scratch.
Maybe I did something wrong somewhere but it was frustrating and not worth the trouble. I'll just go with a real Time Capsule and call it a day.
- uptown 12y agoThe problem I have with the "just go with a real TimeCapsule" solution is that it doesn't scale. I've got a 3TB iMac, and a couple Apple laptops. The largest TimeCapsule available is 3TB. They don't provide a way to increase your storage without buying multiple TimeCapsules, and the economics of that are already way out of whack with what storage costs are these days.
- bkeroack 12y agoI agree completely that the price is steep and the capacity limiting, but if it's a choice between no backups and one or more Time Capsules, I'm going to pick the latter.