Kaleb S. KEITHLEY
2018-Nov-13 16:15 UTC
[Gluster-users] Time Machine network backup on a Gluster volume
On 11/13/18 11:06 AM, Andrew Spott wrote:> Hello all, > > I would like to use a Gluster volume (3 disks over 3 nodes, replication > 3) as a time machine backup solution for a few Macbooks. > > Has anyone done this kind of thing?? The Samba vfs_glusterfs plugin > seems to no longer be maintainedThe gluster VFS is maintained in Samba, see, e.g. https://github.com/samba-team/samba/blob/master/source3/modules/vfs_glusterfs.c> (https://github.com/gluster/samba-glusterfs), and I'm not sure if NFS is > supported for time machine backups.AFAIK timemachine is agnostic about the file system. My own home setup uses an afpoe file system mounted from my Airport Extreme. -- Kaleb
Kaleb S. KEITHLEY
2018-Nov-13 16:27 UTC
[Gluster-users] Time Machine network backup on a Gluster volume
On 11/13/18 11:15 AM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:> On 11/13/18 11:06 AM, Andrew Spott wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I would like to use a Gluster volume (3 disks over 3 nodes, replication >> 3) as a time machine backup solution for a few Macbooks. >> >> Has anyone done this kind of thing?? The Samba vfs_glusterfs plugin >> seems to no longer be maintained > > The gluster VFS is maintained in Samba, see, e.g. > https://github.com/samba-team/samba/blob/master/source3/modules/vfs_glusterfs.c > > >> (https://github.com/gluster/samba-glusterfs), and I'm not sure if NFS is >> supported for time machine backups. > > AFAIK timemachine is agnostic about the file system. My own home setup > uses an afpoe file system mounted from my Airport Extreme.Correction: afpfs (afpovertcp) file system mounted from an Airport Extreme. I've been hearing for years that Apple has switched to SMB. My AE is fairly new but I've never found a way to make it do SMB instead of AFP. -- Kaleb