Re: TM backups of a restored drive

On Mar 27, 2012, at 8:28 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:

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> I wrote:
>> Alternatively, you might consider an eSATA enclosure instead.
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> Still yet another option is a NAS. QNAP and ReadyNAS come to mind. Also FreeNAS/TrueNAS are possibilities, based on FreeBSD so you'd get ZFS including RAIDZ capability, and built-in SMART monitoring, lots of other features.  At least the FreeNAS/TrueNAS products are using a recent version of Netatalk for AFP which supports Time Machine network backups. I have tested it in a VM, works nicely, reasonably straightforward.
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In my home office I am using Nexentastor with ZFS for this sort of thing.  I installed Netatalk on it as well and all my Time Machine backups for about 5 or so Macs go to that  server as well as on different volumes on the same machine all my media, files, code repositories, etc. (some are still being migrated to it)

Nexentastor is an OpenSolaris fork with ZFS.   http://www.nexentastor.org/  .  The community edition is free to use up to something like 17 or 18TB.

Chad