I did some more reading about netatalk support for Apple Time Machine
backups. I found this post that mentions apple plans to phase out AFP in
favor of SMB over the long term.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/30723500#message30723500
AFP will continue to be supported for quite a while due to it's use in
older versions of MacOS, and devices like Time Capsule, etc. But the
future will be SMB.
It's would still be useful to have the newer netatalk3 in debian (and
derivatives) to quickly be able to support the existing things out
there, the SMB stuff isn't ready yet and I predict netatalk will still
be useful for many years.
The above post mentions that Apple has talked to the samba project about
what things will be needed in order to support Time Machine via SMB. I
found this bug in the samba bug tracker
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12380
which mentions it should become available in samba 4.8 (currently not
yet released or in Debian).
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Matt Taggart
tagg...@debian.org
