Re: FreeBSD+samba as a time machine server for OSX/Sonoma?

On 07Sep24, David Chisnall apparently wrote:

> I believe this was broken by a macOS update around February.

> > I recently tried to upgrade to samba419 and so far I'm unsuccessful. The error is
> > "The backup disk image could not be created" and I'm running 14.1.

I'm going to ask a silly question here. But why are people running samba instead of
netatalk if they are only using the timemachine backup capability?

I often had difficulting with Samba and timemachine and then I stumbled across an article
on how to use netatalk - sorry, link is lost now, but I can provide configs - and I've
never looked back. Timemachine backups and restores work flawlessly and have done so
across a number of previous macOS versions.

I have nothing against Samba, but it's kinda the swiss-army knife of network file systems
with plenty of complexity, whereas netatalk seems much more specific and simpler. What am
I missing?


Mark.