From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:19:26 +0200."
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:15:50 -0700
From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Message-Id: <20110930211550.9CA50B827@mail.bitblocks.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: how do 9fans backup their Mac(book)?
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:19:26 +0200 Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>  wrote:
> Just curious what 9fans use, for home and/or work, to backup their macs.

I use Time machine on zfs + freebsd + netatalk. [Broken ATM
since the Lion uprgade. Need to update to netatalk-2.2.1]

> context: we are reconsidering how to do this at work,
> and prefer not to reinvent the wheel.

May be some zfs based NAS appliance? ZFS snapshots are very
cheap and you can delete old ones (if you want more frequent
recent backups and less frequent older backups. But I would
test how well deletes work when dedup is used).

You can probably use netatalk & venti (on Unix) to provide a
time machine interface. But I would test venti scaling first.