In addition to all of the good advice already given in this
thread, there's another option that's slightly off the main
stream. My home Time Machine server for the past few years is a
Raspberry Pi running netatalk under linux with a 5TB USB drive
hanging off it for storage. I realize that this doesn't utilize
your existing TC, but a Raspberry Pi can be had for about $25US,
plus a couple of bucks for a power supply. Since netatalk
doesn't require a whole lot of processor power, a Pi Zero should
do the job quite nicely for about $5. Either way, I believe the
form factor is smaller than a TC. If your hard disks are USB,
you're good to go. There's a moderate amount of tinkering to get
everything running, but it's not difficult and once it is
running there's not much to do other than checking logs
occasionally. One advantage of this sort of set-up is that you
can also use the Pi for other services on your LAN. My 5TB drive
has a 4TB partition for TM, and 1TB for a general purpose file
server volume, both served through netatalk, and I've got BIND
running on the Pi as a caching name server for the LAN.
The details of the set-up are off topic for this list, but I'd
be happy to share privately.
On the subject of Time Machine over wifi, my two cents is that I
haven't experienced any major problems. As others have said, it
can be slow. An initial backup of a new machine can take
overnight, but once that's done, incrementals generally run
smoothly in the background without drawing the attention of
users. The server has an ethernet connection to the network, but
our laptops and a mini connect with wifi.
On 1/9/20 at 7:03 AM,
[email protected] (Jean-Christophe
Helary) wrote:
I have an almost totally full but still working 2gb TC, and I have 2-3
old 1-2TB hard disks around.
I'd like to organize all that into a solid backup system based (or
not) on the TC, that also provides wifi Time Machine access to the 2-3
machines we use daily.
Since Apple has discontinued TC and related accessories, I'm left with
what I have and with the possibility to add a magic "glue" accessory
that would replace/extend the existing TC.
But I'm not sure in which direction to look for that thing. Any idea?
--
Christopher Bort
<[email protected]>
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