Netatalk v3? Time Machine compatibility

[tji]

From what I have read about netatalk, v3 has some important updates for Time Machine compatibility, and you no longer need to use "TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes" to allow your Mac to use the volume.

I see that in the latest FreeNAS 8 release, it includes netatalk 2.2. Is a Netatalk 3 package available anywhere? Is anyone else using it?

 

[cyberjock]

You could probably get it from their sourceforge page and compile it into FreeNAS yourself.

 

[tji]

I was thinking that a storage server project like FreeNAS would have an experimental package repository, or some people doing there own testing.
I also do not have a FreeBSD build environment, so building from source would take some work - which is why I wanted to check foran existing package..

 

[seggerman]

From what I have read about netatalk, v3 has some important updates for Time Machine compatibility, and you no longer need to use "TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes" to allow your Mac to use the volume.

I see that in the latest FreeNAS 8 release, it includes netatalk 2.2. Is a Netatalk 3 package available anywhere? Is anyone else using it?

I personally don't know which version is installed in FreeNAS 8.3.1 but the "TMShowUnsuppotedNetworkVolumes" is not necessary. I think that this feature is something that has been added to netatalk 2.1/2.2.

During the definition of the AFP share you need to specify "TimeMachine" as a type an voila it works.

I've been using this for the past 1-2 years with 3 macs and no problem whatsoever.

Hope this helps

Alexander

 

[tji]

Thanks, Alexander. I will check that out. I had run into problems doing this with netatalk on Linux, but I checked the release notes for v2.2.1, and it looks like it should have everything needed for Time Machine support. Maybe this is a newer version on FreeNAS.