time machine backup to samba

Submitted by lepton on Tue, 07/14/2020 - 11:53

1. make a sparseimage or sparsebundle file using Disk Utility
 //hdiutil create -size 1000g -type SPARSEBUNDLE -nospotlight -volname "Name" -fs "Journaled HFS+" -verbose file.sparsebundle

2. copy the file to a samba dir

3. mount the disk image file

4. sudo tmutil setdestination /Volumes/DiskImageMountPoint

5. now the disk is available in time machine

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