MacOS in a VM

A history of my personal computing hardware

I had a series of desktops and laptops between 1997 and 2005. I borrowed a Sony Vaio laptop for a while from a good friend, then purchased some older used ThinkPad, then a new Asus latop where I ran Linux. I made the …

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Setup Samba on ZFS for MacOS Time Machine

Notes on setup

This should be rewritten in Ansible, but for now these are the commands.

Create a zpool. I named mine backups. Disable access-times and enable the SMB share.

zfs set atime=off tanker/backups
zfs set sharesmb=on tanker/backups

Install Samba if you have not already. apt-get …

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