Transform your Raspberry Pi into a Apple Time Capsule

This is a short guide (and reminder for myself) how to add a Samba share as target for macOS Time Machine. I found some blog posts about how to do this, but most of the time the author created a new disk on the share 1 2. This seems like a rather unusual complicated setup to do backups and there are products like the Apple Time Capsule, that works via network discovery....

November 23, 2021 · 3 min · 555 words · André Sterba

Backups with borg/borgmatic

I am a big fan of the backup tool borgbackup. Borg is space efficient as it supports compression and deduplication and is also secure, so you don’t have to trust the storage provider where your backup will be stored. In this short guide we will setup automatic backups for a server. But most of it can also be used to backup your clients. An addition to borg I use the wrapper borgmatic which will remove any custom scripts needed around borg....

April 21, 2021 · 5 min · 966 words · André Sterba