Time Machine Backups on OpenBSD with Netatalk

Introduction

Apple's automatic backup app Time Machine is a fantastic utility that does hourly, daily, and weekly backups of local snapshots. This enables you to restore the system to a previous state in the event of a catastrophic failure—a somewhat rare occurence on the ever-so-stable macOS. The caveat being that storage is limited to AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) compatible devices like the Apple AirPort Time Capsule. Fortunately, Netatalk provides an open source AFP file server that works flawlessly on OpenBSD, and setup is trivial.

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