![]() ![]() Conversion from P2V or V2P can also be scheduled. Symantec's BESR allows full system backup and restore (virtual and physical)from any hardware with restore to dissimilar hardware. Using Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8.5 PBA is an application to do hard disk clones, backups and restores but appears to no longer be under development. NOTE: Older Amahi releases used the Personal Backup Appliance, or PBA, with the collaboration of the PBA leader, Roland Hui. See the Amahi tutorial on using Clonezilla for detailed guidance. Recommend checking out Clonezilla as a viable alternative. Full Disk "Bare Metal" Backupsīare metal backups are no longer available as a feature in current Amahi releases. ![]() To fix this, you need a more recent version of netatalk (2.0.5+?), which has an option to tell fibs about the size of the disk, hence limiting timemachine's space consumption. Update: Recent versions of timemachine do not appear to respect the max size of the sparsebundle and will cheerfully fill up your disk. Time machine will now find your amahi time capsule.Timemachine image will grow when you synchronize but never larger than the max size.MacBookProIcey_aa00bb11cc22.sparsebundle) On your mac open disk utility, make a new disk image with the max size on disk possible and name it Computername_ethernetmacadress.sparsebundle (ex.The server will show up on your mac connect to the xserve afp server.Then service avahi-daemon and atalk restart.Change UserName to your username and /var/hda/files/timemachine to your timemachine folder, the first line will also publish your homefolder to your mac but was necessary in my setup to work.var/hda/files/timemachine allow:UserName cnidscheme:cdb options:usedots,upriv Because the exact conditions leading to data corruption are not well quantified, we do not recommend you backup like this.įor full time machine support in fedora, avahi(bonjour) and netatalk(afp) need to be installed There are rumors that data corruption can occur if the size of the backup exceeds 2TB or if a large number of files, on the order of a million, are backed up. Needless to say, we're not advocating you backup your data like this, since Apple does not support this functionality. It should be noted that mounting a directory from your HDA via NFS let's you use time machine without this hack. This will offer you the choice to backup to your HDA shares. The Time Machine hack is a one liner command to be typed in a terminal in Mac OS X:ĭefaults write TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 There is an unsupported way to enable using Mac OS X Time Machine to backup to your HDA. The method described below does not appear to work with Time Machine starting with Snow Leopard - it allows you to see the drives, but backups will not start successfully. WARNING - Hack ahead! For Time Machine smb users only. You can, however, manually copy files to an HDA shared folder.Īnother backup solution is a program called SuperDuper!, follow the link to see the steps and to find out about SuperDuper!.īackups with SystemRescueCD have been reported that they work, more info can be found by visiting the link.īackups with Time Machine Amahi Time Machine Application SMB (Samba) Mac OS X without Time Machine is not officially supported through automated HDA Backups at this time. for backing up your hda shares to usbdrive see Rsnapshot for an example setup.rsnapshot, a solution using rsync, with command line interface.To backup Fedora clients, the following are recommended: How to backup Ubuntu clients using Ubuntu's Simple Backup. Vista or newer: Review the periodic file backups in Windows Vista to your HDA documentation.Open source - no longer under active devel. Here is a partial list (feel free to add others):įree, later version no longer open source There are a number of great open source or free backup programs out there that you can use free (commercial users should check license details). If you have good suggestions on how to do that, please add them to this section of the wiki! (Or email it to us if you're wiki-shy) ![]() We have documented ways to conduct periodic backups in various platforms.
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