From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 29 23:13:29 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D02CA114 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:13:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out.apple.com (bramley.apple.com [17.151.62.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B935DF3F for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:13:29 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from relay6.apple.com ([17.128.113.90]) by mail-out.apple.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-23.01 (7.0.4.23.0) 64bit (built Aug 10 2011)) with ESMTP id <0MKG00FCB3689F23@mail-out.apple.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:13:23 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 1180715a-b7f566d000006daa-e4-515620122577 Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (cswiger1.apple.com [17.209.4.71]) (using TLS with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by relay6.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with SMTP id FA.80.28074.31026515; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:13:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: external hdd From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:13:22 -0700 Message-id: <150B553F-AED1-45D7-86C9-EB482ED267EC@mac.com> References: <6B60EA1E-0277-499A-917A-AA2B3030F0FD@mac.com> To: Damien Fleuriot , Laszlo Danielisz X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFlrLLMWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUieJHFXVdYISzQ4NwxNouXXzexWLya8ZXN Ys6JvewOzB4zPs1n8Ti+cCGjx6xZh5kCmKO4bFJSczLLUov07RK4Mt7u6WMpeMdesXxTE0sD YztbFyMnh4SAicSk76+ZIWwxiQv31gPFuTiEBCYxSZx6NwusSFhAUqJ50QQwm1fAUOLW5blg NrOAlsSNfy+ZQGw2ARWJxbP+Aw3i4OAUCJRomRgMEmYRUJWYdvIiK0S5rkTTjbeMELa2xLKF EHt5BawkNvV/Z4XYu4FRYta142ANIgL+Esvb2lkhjpOV2HnnNMsERv5ZSM6YheSMWUjmLmBk XsUoUJSak1hpppdYUJCTqpecn7uJERSIDYVROxgbllsdYhTgYFTi4ZVYFRooxJpYVlyZe4hR goNZSYRXfgVQiDclsbIqtSg/vqg0J7X4EKM0B4uSOO8SprBAIYH0xJLU7NTUgtQimCwTB6dU A6Phpi2nhYV2bJPpO7ezWyTj5S9P0UK1UFHxtv4wx1Pc9lmlp/bqRC+KF3r0Kb73DH+h5mTN HY95irUyJlbyR684c7nxM3+gxuElE5a0/Mv8XFD6ab3IHMsbzgKlqueUlj8vlHHhMK1i56v8 rNPWuW+mhvGeyWkR02VOVfI5JL/6nTWr/OWdw0osxRmJhlrMRcWJAG4Y4k9AAgAA Cc: FreeBSD - X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:13:29 -0000 Hi-- On Mar 29, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 29 March 2013 18:06, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> Time Machine is only supported on top of journaled HFS+; I'm not sure how fusefs-hfs is doing on FreeBSD, though. Or you could setup multiple partitions and have an exFAT partition for data interchange between other OSes. > > Now, unless I got things wrong, I believe you're mistaken. The key word above which folks might not be paying enough attention towards-- particularly in the context of a backup solution-- is "supported". > I, for instance, have a Time Machine server running on top of 10.0-CURRENT with ZFS. > http://www.area536.com/projects/ironclad-time-machine-backups-on-freebsd/ Indeed. As one might note on that page: defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 ^^^^^^^^^^^ #include Regards, -- -Chuck