Comments on: FreeNAS Version 8 Won’t Talk Time Machine With Lion

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[…] features are a compelling reason for me to upgrade from 10.6 Snow Leopard. Throw in stuff like FreeNAS not working (as well as UPnP) and I decided to wait it out. After all, the biggest changes to 10.7 were to make […]

By: Fred Kaauw

Fred Kaauw — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:46:38 +0000

Solution found, I used the latest night build from Freenas: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8-nightly/FreeNAS-8r7209-amd64.iso/download
used AFP and made a apple share.
Time Machine Found a disk to use….
I Use OSX Lion on a IMAC

By: Tom Wyrick

Tom Wyrick — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:05:56 +0000

In reply to John.

John, yeah… that’s good news. I found out over the weekend that the netatalk developers have finally placed the latest release (v2.20) of their code up on SourceForge, so now it’s just a matter of waiting for the FreeNAS folks to download it and implement it.

I’m confident FreeNAS will support Time Machine backups in OS X Lion pretty quickly. Support is appearing for a number of the commercial NAS products already.

The biggest questions all of this raise are philosophical ones, I guess. It seems to me the netatalk developers adopted an “end justifies the means” strategy, violating the GPL on purpose (temporarily), to ensure the long-term success of what was a dying project. It seems it was effective, but it weakens the trust people have in the open-source community. (If you opt for an open-source solution in lieu of a commercial one, can you be confident it will retain that status?)

By: John

John — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:11:34 +0000

I heard someone talking at a LUG meeting a month ago who said that Amahi was working on getting OS X Lion Time Machine backups working with it. Yeah its not FreeNAS but alternatives are always cool.