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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Is there anything I can selfhost that would allow me to backup my Mac-Air via time machine? I would be using a vps to host the backup. Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why not just use rsync? With my experience, I'd rather go with that than any solution based on time machine, especially over Wan, as it is quite unreliable if the connection isn't perfect.

Otherwise, as long as you can mount the share as smb, you should be able to use it for time machine, so anything like freenas, truenas, unraid, open media vault should do the trick.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the fantastic options I never thought about. I just don't trust the USB external drive. I've had nothing but bad luck with it. Thanks again!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Rsync is great, but unless you are using a system on top of rsync (eg. rsync-backup) it only gives you a single copy which isn't the best option for backups.

For example, you accidentally change a file but by the time you notice the version you want has been overwritten.