February 16, 2024 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

Adding a new user to my Time Capsule – on ZFS with Samba

I have another laptop I want to backup using my Time Capsule jail. Here are the step I used. Create a Unix User I have no idea if I need to do this. But I did. But now, I’m thinking, it is not required, at all. But read on, I think I’ll show you where […]

OK, we got a Time Machine on ZFS on FreeBSD. So what. Can we restore from it?

Leave a Comment / Apple, samba, ZFS / By Dan Langille / February 16, 2024

I have written recently about creating a ZFS-based Time Machine on FreeBSD. Yesterday, I did my first restore from this instance. Surprise. It worked. Please move along. Nothing to see here. Just photos. The motivation: I’m replacing one MacBook with another. Some details here on Twitter. Edit – 2024-02-22 After I messed up when renaming

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