It’s very important to add the options:tm at the end of the line so that Netatalk enables various special options for Time Machine. Setting up NetatalkĬhange your /etc/netatalk/fault file to export the Time Machine volume. I prefer aptitude due to its dependency handling, but you can easily use apt-get or synaptic or whatever you wish.
Netatalk hide folder install#
Pull in the required packages: aptitude install netatalk avahi-daemon You will also require avahi-daemon to be installed and running, as mDNS / Bonjour is required for the volumes to show up in the Time Machine preference pane. I can only really recommend the use of Netatalk 2.1 or above for Time Machine. It works with Samba but only in its unsupported configuration, and I ran into many issues when I used Samba – especially with backups becoming corrupted. You have to use AFP for Time Machine to be “supported”.
Netatalk hide folder mac os x#
I am basing these instructions on Debian Squeeze and Mac OS X Snow Leopard as that is what I’m running, however it looks like Netatalk 2.1 onwards has the necessary patches to support Time Machine (these implement the afp_syncdir and afp_syncfork commands in AFP 3.2). The backup volume just appears in the Time Machine preference pane, and the Mac OS X Install DVD’s restore mode also can see and restore from the network volume. There is a way, though, to get Time Machine backing up to a Linux server without jumping through any hoops on the client. There are many guides on the Internet that deal with getting Apple’s Time Machine to back up to a network disk, however all of those that I managed to find rely on setting a hidden system preference to show unsupported disks – and hence don’t help with the problem of restoring from backup should the worst happen.
Netatalk hide folder manual#
I’m writing a new guide with Lion in mind but I haven’t got round to finishing it yet – the short version is: you need Netatalk 2.2 with its Avahi support built-in, and remove any manual Avahi service files you have created. User) and hence copied along with the enclosing folder.Please note: This guide assumes you are using Snow Leopard. This way they would be "seen" by the MacOS (but not by the Mac files with the invisible bit set (I see no need to change the netatalk has to try to do what you want and I think it seems toīe doing pretty close to the right thing, though it does seem that itĬould take. The Mac it just means that you wanted to call your file. htaccess files on my Mac and they've never behavedĪny differently than files with other names. I should also mention that on MacOS a filename starting with a. It is visible, the file type, creator app, whether it is locked, etc. >I'm not terribly familiar with Macs, how do you set a file to beĮach file has a set of attributes stored with it indicating whether Subject: Re: Hidden Files Not Being CopiedĪt 10:30 AM -0500 1/18/01, Bill Moran wrote: But please: don't make it the default, for theįrom: Ray Zimmerman [mailto: Thursday, Janu6:36 PM Of course, implementing whatever the community want is possible, such as My personal point of view would be to be horrified by such a beast! Given that, I wonder HOW anyone is supposed to justify that netatalk wouldīy any mean translate a dot-file into an invisible file. Moreover, as some people already pointed out, a dot-file is a valid name on You see, no filter, just a plain readdir() which is the exact equivalent of Run this with any directory as the first argument and you will get a listing
It is only that the default "ls" command behaviour is to filter out theseĪnd the default shell wildcard, "*", too.Īny other thingy (command, API) in the U*X world "sees" everything in aĮxit unless = shift "Dir entries are: ", join("\n",readdir(DIR)), "\n"
is definitely NOT MEANT to be "invisible". OK folks, let's clarify something on the U*X side.Ī file beginning with a.