Re: Getting Amanda (3.5.1) to run properly under MacOSX 10.15

At Thu, 8 Jun 2023 21:31:50 -0600 Charles Curley <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Thu,  8 Jun 2023 20:57:38 -0400 (EDT)
> Robert Heller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I know nothing about "Time Machine".  Will it backup to a Linux
> > machine?
> 
> Yes. You need Apple networking so the Linux machine will fake a Mac. On
> Debian, that would be the netatalk package. That also pulls in avahi
> (bonjour implementation), so your Mac will find the server
> automatically.
> 
> However, if you encrypt the backup, the files on the Linux machine are
> opaque, meaning you can't extract a file on the Linux machine. I have
> not experimented with an unencrypted backup.
> 
> This is how I back up my iPhone, since Apple won't release iPhone
> backup software for Linux.
> 
> You could also mount a Samba share on your Mac.

I did some poking around, and it looks like I could automount a NFS file 
system as well.  I'd rather not mess with Samba or netatalk.

> 

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