Time Machine is built into current Mac OSes. It wants its own disk, which 
should be a bit (or a lot) bigger than the one you are backing up.  I don’t 
think it can backup to another machine. It works well, since it’s baked in.

Deb 

> On Jun 8, 2023, at 10:36 PM, Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com> wrote:
> I know nothing about "Time Machine".  Will it backup to a Linux machine?
> 
> At Thu, 8 Jun 2023 17:39:47 -0600 Orion Poplawski <or...@nwra.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 6/8/23 09:50, Robert Heller wrote:
>>> Already doing that.
>>> I'm beginning to think that I need to find some other way of backing up this
>>> machine, or maybe just not back it up at all (it is just a build box and has
>>> nothing on it that is not available either elsewhere on my LAN (eg the
>>> subversion tree on my main desktop) or out on the Internet (eg the O/S and
>>> XCode at Apple.com or via Mac Ports).
>> 
>> Why not Time Machine?
> 
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