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

[Chuck Swiger <cswiger%mac.com@localhost>]

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...  :-)