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Ubuntu 11.04 setting up Mac OS Time Machine server

Robin — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:22:39 +0000

Since i don’t want to give all the money to Apple and want some great backup, i found that Ubuntu (even on Openvz) can work as a Time Machine drive!

So here is what i have done:

# sudo apt-get install netatalk
After this i have added a line in /etc/netatak/AppleVolumes.default like this:
/backup/TimeMachine “TimeMachine” options:tm
Now we have to install avahi-daemon:
# sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon
One installed we have to create a file /etc/avahi/services/afpd.service with the following content:

_afpovertcp._tcp

548

_device-info._tcp

model=Xserve

And now restart both services:
# sudo service netatalk restart # sudo service avahi-daemon restart

Now you can access the share by your mac, if not you have to typ the following on CLI as root:
# defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

Update blog pages

Robin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:19:05 +0000

Today put some new pages on the blog about the why and how between Dutchzone and Netdistri bvba.
Some people started me asking always the same questions so here are the answers now

Vandaag heb ik even de pagina’s bijgevoegd over hoe het nu zit tussen Dutchzone en Netdistri bvba en wat er nog waar gebeurt.
Steeds meer mensen komen met deze vragen en daarom hierbij dus de antwoorden! (enkel in het Engels)

Today wordpress is updated on this site…

Robin — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:19:24 +0000

Today i did the update of this blog (wordpress-script). I was on vacation when the new version came out, after reading what could happend i’m glad to know that this site is not used by the security problem!

So now we searching a way to allert us when load to the server get’s to high

Techspider.net stopped

Robin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:29:10 +0000

Techspider.net has stopped because the project has to many other websites doing the same and with more people.

Finally got clickto.nl running

Robin — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:37:08 +0000

After 3 months of working on it http://www.clickto.nl is working.

Offcourse there are some items that we have to built, like SEO friendly urls but at this moment we are searching betatesters ans moderators!

Spending hours on google maps

Robin — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:57:40 +0000

After 3 days of problems finally got googlemaps api working, now searching a way to collapse the thing without loosing the centerpoint, so if anyone knows a javascript sollution that not screw my centerpoint plz let me know! You can see the result on http://www.cauwenbergh.be/maps5.php?adres=makeyourchoice

offcourse i have other options but these are not relevant at this time

Tyan eth0 & eth1 switched

Robin — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:14:13 +0000

After searching for 2 weeks what the problem was on a Tyan server we switched by accident the networkcables and guess what… Everything was working how easy don’t you think… So before screaming the thing is ready for trowing away think twice :p And after 3 CENTOS 5 installs we did this :s

Working at the nerves from your boss

Robin — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:42:37 +0000

This is really good, don’t know if i could have so much fun if they will trick me :p

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0XdthbOkMU[/youtube]

Final: backupserver is running!

Robin — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:35:56 +0000

The beginning was not so good, 3-ware card was not recognized by CentOS 5 neither 4! So after searching a couple of hours and found the right device drivers we could start the install! So far so good, we have a system with 6 x SATA 320GB in raid 5 so we have 1,45TB of diskspace available for backup on six disks! The system: a supermicro server with 12 bays for hardisks…

Now installing quota and ftp so the system could work as meant!

How stupid can i be?

Robin — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:27:30 +0000

Last night i get a message to reboot a cetain server, so after a litle chat that person says: ok it’s the only solution so reboot that server now.

On that moment there are 3 persons logged in on the server, none of them know what the other does, but each person logged in as root.

So good believing Robin reboots the server, after 30 minutes still no answer from that server, asking how normal the other person would find this, he says no panic, i had one for 40 minutes last time… After 60 minutes i have discided to reboot the thing by APC, but still an hour after that no response from that server. At this piont someone called me to hear what was wrong, give me some other solutions, but all without any result, but after that i would see it with my own eyes and going to the datacenter. One problem at this point, i’m not on the permanent accesslist so I could not get inside the f*cking building… At this point i’m stuck and getting in my bed…

After hours of thinking i have made a descision: never believe someone even if it is one of your best friends, never trust someone, when there is shit you can solve the problem alone…

So i’m thinking at this point if you’re on a server and working on it, before you start or getting rootaccess, check first what the other person is working on, don’t believe someone unless you have heart each person logged in on the system how hard it would be! Those who know the story think twice, never run away from a problem, at that moment you help until it is solved! So thank you my friends!