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Stefano Marinelli
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With Apple phasing out AFP in macOS 27 and Time Capsules officially reaching end-of-life, it's time to move network backups to proper SMB.

If you run a FreeBSD server, you can build a fast, rock-solid, and secure Time Machine target powered by ZFS and Samba - neatly isolated inside a FreeBSD jail using Bastille.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/01/28/time-machine-freebsd-jail/

Keep your macOS backups running smoothly via SMBv3 (with full vfs_fruit support) and full dataset quota control on ZFS!

#FreeBSD #macOS #TimeMachine #ZFS #BastilleBSD #Samba #SysAdmin #Backup #OwnYourData #SelfHosted #BSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData
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Doerk · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqt7dmr2xue8zaxsxhy2xkdja0nx6f8cu8y8l7hfksw98y773djkgqktvf35 Thank you, Stefano. That’s exactly what I planned next with my FreeBSD Homeserver. How did you know?
Three plus or minus five · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqt7dmr2xue8zaxsxhy2xkdja0nx6f8cu8y8l7hfksw98y773djkgqktvf35 What part makes it fast? I’ve managed to get a samba share but Ventura wouldn’t back up to it. I got netatalk working but backing up has been running for a week now and is only h...
h3artbl33d :openbsd: :antifa: · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqt7dmr2xue8zaxsxhy2xkdja0nx6f8cu8y8l7hfksw98y773djkgqktvf35 Time Capsule reaching end of life. Booh! Forfunately it doesn't have to be the end, bunch of hackers fixed that: https://github.com/jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB
R.L. Dane :Debian: :FreeBSD: :OpenBSD: :NetBSD:🍵 :MiraLovesYou: · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqt7dmr2xue8zaxsxhy2xkdja0nx6f8cu8y8l7hfksw98y773djkgqktvf35 Wouldn't ssh/sshfs be a better option? SMB seems so convoluted to me, although maybe that's just an opinion from the bad old days when it had to be reverse-engineered by Tridge.