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by bayindirh 59 days ago
That "replacement" is not always full-on hardware.

I have colleagues who are running AFP on BSD for continuous backups on their systems, and they have to reconfigure something new to be able to continue backing up their systems.
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trillic 59 days ago
I use this for networked Time Machine backups for multiple Macs in my household. Works just as well over tailscale VPN.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Netatalk

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snapetom 59 days ago
One of my COVID projects was to set up a networked Time Machine backup on Raspberry Pi.

Every single one of the blogspam sites (lifehacker, howtogeek, etc.) told you to use AFP/HFS+/Netatalk. I had so many problems with this. Time Machine would work well the first few times and then slow to a crawl. If there was a power outage, look out. The whole thing would be corrupted. It wasn't the network. FTP and scp worked just fine.

Eventually I found one blog that told you how to do it with SMB and ext4. It was that site that I learned about the much malignment of AFP and HFS+. SMB/ext4 worked like a charm. Six years later and not a single hiccup.

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wang_li 59 days ago
Also works for System 7 based Macintoshes. In case you got frozen in a glacier in 1991.
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jshier 59 days ago
Nah, classic Macintosh OSes aren't compatible with modern AFP.
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wang_li 59 days ago
They are compatible with netatalk though. The project split between version 2 and 3, but in recent releases they folded them back into a single thing. Current netatalk releases support all versions of AFP.
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JumpCrisscross 59 days ago
> That "replacement" is not always full-on hardware

Oh, I was thinking only of software. Apple dropping AFP in the OS doesn't mean it can't work at all.

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bayindirh 59 days ago
I believe the only supported mode is SAMBA now.
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