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Using Time Machine with Lion and Ubuntu 11.10 network share

I am currently running Mac OS X Lion version 10.7.2. After upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion, I found I was unable to backup to my network share on my Ubuntu server. After a bit of digging and cobbling together tips from various sources, here’s what I was able to get to work:

  1. Add the following sources to my /etc/apt/sources.list
     

    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jstrunk-math/ppa/ubuntu oneiric main
    deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/jstrunk-math/ppa/ubuntu oneiric main

     

  2. Next install netatalk 2.2.1
     

    sudo -i
    apt-get update
    apt-get install netatalk
     
    If you get the error
    W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY F05216522B3F68C0
    perform the following and repeat step 2:
     

    gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv F05216522B3F68C0
    gpg --export --armor F05216522B3F68C0 | sudo apt-key add -

     

  3. Add the following to the end of /etc/netatalk/afpd.conf
     

    - -tcp -noddp -uamlist uams_dhx.so,uams_dhx2_passwd.so -nosavepassword -setuplog "default log_info /var/log/afpd.log"

     

  4. Edit /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default with your share:
     

    # The line below sets some DEFAULT, starting with Netatalk 2.1.
    : DEFAULT: options:upriv,usedots
    /media/data "TimeMachine" cnidscheme:dbd options:usedots,upriv,tm

     

  5. Restart netatalk:
     

    service netatalk restart

     

If you run into issues with the above, you may need to remove afpd.service from your /etc/avahi/services and restart the avahi-daemon service and netatalk service:

service avahi-daemon restart
service netatalk restart