{"id":2043,"date":"2012-08-19T19:36:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T19:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2023-07-13T22:57:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T22:57:19","slug":"ubuntu-as-an-os-x-timemachine-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/technology\/ubuntu-as-an-os-x-timemachine-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu as an OS X TimeMachine server"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the best features of Mac OS X is TimeMachine, a ridiculously easy to use backup system. The downside to TimeMachine is you either have to use an external hard drive or buy Apple&#8217;s TimeCapsule backup hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turns out there&#8217;s a third option &#8212; use a Linux PC as your backup server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Ubuntu Linux 12.04, I highly recommend following <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bertelsen.co\/2012\/07\/time-machine-server-on-ubuntu-1204.html\">this guide<\/a>, which explains the safest route. Keep in mind it&#8217;s completely unsupported by Apple, of course, so if your backups are overwritten with My Little Pony pictures, don&#8217;t go complaining to the Genuis Bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A couple notes on the guide:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Most users can safely ignore the part about Shorewall settings.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The guide glosses over user-level security. You could use your normal user account for backups, but you should consider setting up a special user account just for TimeMachine. That way if someone hacks into your Mac, they&#8217;ll only have access to your backups and not your entire Linux PC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best features of Mac OS X is TimeMachine, a ridiculously easy to use backup system. The downside to TimeMachine is you either [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Ubuntu as an OS X TimeMachine server - MrEricSir.com","description":"One of the best features of Mac OS X is TimeMachine, a ridiculously easy to use backup system. The downside to TimeMachine is you either have to use an external"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[809,99,42,43,810,100],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-linux","tag-mac","tag-osx","tag-timemachine","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10163,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions\/10163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}