Setting a timemachine on a ubuntu

[alek66]

Hey everybody.

I just installed my brand new headless ubuntu to use as a nas at home.

I tried to configure a timemachine for my mac following this: http://kremalicious.com/ubuntu-as-ma...achine-volume/
and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ht=timemachine

Heres the set up I am using: I have a dedicated 80gb disk for time machine:
Formated as Ext4, mounted at /mnt/TimeMachine mounted at boot.

sudo gedit /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default

I have:

# By default all users have access to their home directories.
~/			"Home Directory"

/mnt/TimeMachine/TimeMachine "TimeMachine" allow:username1,username2 cnidscheme:cdb options:tm
# End of File

But I get this when I connect from my mac:

And I get no option to use it as my time machine disk from my mac.


Any help would be much appreciated.

[alek66]

Good advances:

I modified this file:
AppleVolumes.default

# By default all users have access to their home directories.
~/ "Home Directory"

/mnt/TimeMachine "TimeMachine" allow:aleza cnidscheme:cdb options:tm
# End of File


Now I have this:



I got time machine to see the disk:


I got this error, I am thinking if there something wrong with the partition and the rights on it?


Any ideas?

[pinjan]

Check my thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1935903

[alek66]

Thanks, I could not make it on ow to fix it, from your thread.

Every tutorial uses a folder, and I am trying to use a dedicated disk for it. I don't know if the partition extension is correct, and what rights should I set on the disk.

Thanks anyway!

[alek66]

Managed to advance now:

Now I get this error when Mounting the shared disk in my apple:

And this error when I do a time machine backup:

I feel like I am getting really close, and Please don't tell me I won't get 100% compatibility here since is not a mac official thing.

Thanks everyone.

[pinjan]

What comes to first message, change : cnidscheme:dbd. You had it above : cnidscheme: cbd. Second error relates to AFP, Apple FilIng Protocol. Which version of Netatalk you have and what you have in afpd.conf file ? Should be something like:
Code:
- -tcp -noddp -uamlist uams_dhx.so,uams_dhx2_passwd.so -nosavepassword

[alek66]

What comes to first message, change : cnidscheme:dbd. You had it above : cnidscheme: cbd. Second error relates to AFP, Apple FilIng Protocol. Which version of Netatalk you have and what you have in afpd.conf file ? Should be something like:
Code:
- -tcp -noddp -uamlist uams_dhx.so,uams_dhx2_passwd.so -nosavepassword

PInjan: Thanks a lot, my netatalk version is 2.2.1.1

I changed the cnidscheme: bcd to cnidscheme:dbd in the AppleVolumes.default, heres how it is now.

# The line below sets some DEFAULT, starting with Netatalk 2.1.
EFAULT: options:upriv,usedots

# By default all users have access to their home directories.
~/ "Home Directory"

#Disco80
/mnt/TimeMachine "TimeMachine" allow:aleza cnidscheme:dbd options:upriv
# End of File

And I changed my line to
My line at the bottom of afpd.conf is: - -tcp -noddp -uamlist uams_randnum.so,uams_dhx.so,uams_dhx2.so -nosavepassword

....now time machine does not even sees the disk.

[pinjan]

I checked my afpd.conf file and I have there following:

- -transall '-uamlist uams_dhx.so,uams_dhx2_passwd.so

Sorry for mistake !

I have same version of netatalk than you are having

[pinjan]

My AppleVolumes.default:

# The line below sets some DEFAULT, starting with Netatalk 2.1.
:DEFAULT: options:upriv,usedots

# By default all users have access to their home directories.
~/                      "Home Directory"
~/ "$u" allow:backupwriter cnidscheme:cdb
/home/username/Backup/TimeMachine "TM" allow:username options:usedots,upriv,tm ea:ad
/mnt/TimeMachine "TimeMachine" allow:username cnidscheme:cdb options:tm,usedots

# End of File

Where username is my username naturally Hopefully this helps.

[alek66]

My AppleVolumes.default:

# The line below sets some DEFAULT, starting with Netatalk 2.1.
:DEFAULT: options:upriv,usedots

# By default all users have access to their home directories.
~/                      "Home Directory"
~/ "$u" allow:backupwriter cnidscheme:cdb
/home/username/Backup/TimeMachine "TM" allow:username options:usedots,upriv,tm ea:ad
/mnt/TimeMachine "TimeMachine" allow:username cnidscheme:cdb options:tm,usedots

# End of File

Where username is my username naturally Hopefully this helps.

Which one of the time machines is the one you use? I see two,

After some errors of the CBD scheme, it started to do the bkp.

I will let you know after it finished, on how it went.