At Thu, 8 Jun 2023 21:31:50 -0600 Charles Curley
<charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2023 20:57:38 -0400 (EDT)
> Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > I know nothing about "Time Machine". Will it backup to a Linux
> > machine?
>
> Yes. You need Apple networking so the Linux machine will fake a Mac. On
> Debian, that would be the netatalk package. That also pulls in avahi
> (bonjour implementation), so your Mac will find the server
> automatically.
>
> However, if you encrypt the backup, the files on the Linux machine are
> opaque, meaning you can't extract a file on the Linux machine. I have
> not experimented with an unencrypted backup.
>
> This is how I back up my iPhone, since Apple won't release iPhone
> backup software for Linux.
>
> You could also mount a Samba share on your Mac.
I did some poking around, and it looks like I could automount a NFS file
system as well. I'd rather not mess with Samba or netatalk.
>
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