Custom TimeMachine Server

[Ph03n1xx]

I've always liked the AirPort, and since it's been deprecated firmware-wise, I never really enjoyed the idea of getting a used one. I have a fair bit of knowledge around Linux and microcomputers, so I decided to make my own a few months ago. It's a bit slow at the moment since I'm running it on a Raspberry Pi 3b+; however, it's pretty solid. Sluggish bandwidth over Ethernet and WiFi but for weekly backups it doesn't take much longer opposed to on device. I even put metadata on it so it shows up on my Mac as an AirPort too.


Has anybody here tried doing this? If you have, what kind of hardware did/do you run, and how has your experience been with it?

 

[DJLC]

I run TrueNAS Scale on an old Dell PowerEdge tower for this (among other things). Works great, no complaints. macOS shows it with an Xserve RAID icon. Close enough, I guess. 😜

 

[Ph03n1xx]

I run TrueNAS Scale on an old Dell PowerEdge tower for this (among other things). Works great, no complaints. macOS shows it with an Xserve RAID icon. Close enough, I guess. 😜

That's awesome! I'm really starting to experiment with self hosted services so it's really cool to see others doing the same thing. I'm heavily considering a M715Q to switch over to from the Pi. Definitely not the best piece of hardware in the world to have a ton of containers running on haha