Re: using a NetBSD host as an iSCSI target for OSX (time machine) (or other mechanisms)

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Nov 16, 2009, at 8:22 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> Hi--
> 
> On Nov 16, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
>> As a hack, how about creating a .dmg file on the NFS or whatever file 
>> system, and point Time Machine at it.  Would that work?  (I just use a USB 
>> disk for my Mac backups, so I haven't worried about it.)
> 
> Supposedly, yes, although people have reported that using AFP is noticeably 
> faster than using either SMB or NFS filesharing as the transport:
> 
>  http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/TimeMachineBackups
>  
> http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/06/ubuntu-as-mac-file-server-and-time-machine-volume
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> -Chuck
> 
> PS: My apologies if this is diverging from NetBSD-oriented stuff...  :-)
> 
I'll return it to NetBSD -- the kernel seems to support AppleTalk, at least for 
network stuff.  Does that suffice, or does one need the pkgsrc netatalk package?

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb