[Ukfreebsd] nice little storage server for 112GBP

[Ceri Davies]

On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 10:53:30AM +0000, Geoff Fox wrote:
> 
> On 8 Jan 2011, at 10:01, Mark Blackman wrote:
> > he machine shows up in the network, but can't authenticate successfully.
> > 
> > Anyone else got AFP and time machine backups working to a FreeBSD
> > box?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Mark
> 
> This is all from memory from a year ago, but I hope it helps you.
> 
> If you're backing up from Snow Leopard then I don't think it'll work. I had the same problem with Time Machine back ups a year ago to a 'Tiger' Mac. Everything worked when I ran Leopard, but the minute I 'upgraded' to Snow Leopard the back ups ceased the work. It seems that SL can only back up to a L or SL Mac. This is irrespective of whether you can see the back up drive or not. 
> 
> One option that'll work is to invest in SuperDuper (I didn't). This program backs up to anything.
> http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

Mark,

Not sure what the state of iSCSI targets is on FreeBSD (I know there's
one in ports), but you might also like to investigate
http://eldar.aydayev.com/?p=138

Ceri
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