Timemachine Support in NS8

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Hi there,

As apple has discontinued the support for the good old Time Machine hardware, I am looking for options.

I remembered that several years ago I was using nethserver. No I have several use cases where nethserver could be helpful I came back :slight_smile:

First thing: I installed samba as a account provider and created a Time Machine share but cannot find any options to adjust the share with options like

fruit:time machine = yes

fruit:time machine max size = 1T

fruit:aapl = yes

vfs objects = fruit streams_xattr catia

Just found a thread that is 6 years old.

Is there a (hidden) way to do this without the danger to loose the share after an ns8 update?

Best regards,

Joe

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You could use the samba registry.

Enter the samba instance environment, in this example it’s samba1:

runagent -m samba1

Set options:

podman exec samba-dc net conf setparm "time machine" "fruit:time machine" yes
podman exec samba-dc net conf setparm "time machine" "fruit:time machine max size" 1T
podman exec samba-dc net conf setparm "time machine" fruit:aapl yes
podman exec samba-dc net conf setparm "time machine" "vfs objects" "dfs_samba4 acl_xattr recycle full_audit fruit streams_xattr catia"

List options to check if they’re set correctly:

[samba1@node state]$ podman exec samba-dc net conf list
[time machine]
	path = /srv/shares/time machine
	comment = 
	guest ok = no
	read only = no
	fruit:time machine = yes
	fruit:time machine max size = 1T
	fruit:aapl = yes
	vfs objects = dfs_samba4 acl_xattr recycle full_audit fruit streams_xattr catia

See Recycle Bin Samba NS8 - #4 by mrmarkuz or Recycle Bin Samba NS8 - #31 by mrmarkuz for examples.

EDIT:

The default vfs objects defined in smb.conf are

vfs objects = dfs_samba4 acl_xattr recycle full_audit

so you may need to add them to the share options like

podman exec samba-dc net conf setparm "time machine" "vfs objects" "dfs_samba4 acl_xattr recycle full_audit fruit streams_xattr catia"

It’s also possible to define the mac options globally by using the include.conf file:

Edit include.conf…

podman unshare nano $(podman volume inspect config --format={{.Mountpoint}})/include.conf

…and add following content:

vfs objects = dfs_samba4 acl_xattr recycle full_audit fruit streams_xattr catia
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Golden, copycat to the wiki :wink:

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Great. Thank you @LayLow @mrmarkuz

l‘ll try it today evening

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