Complete Hacker Tutorial to getting Time Machine over NFS to work.

Why does the title contain "Complete Hacker Tutorial"? Wouldn't "How I got Time Machine over NFS to Work" be a less linkbait-ish title?

Why use NFS over AFP or SMB? The technique is basically the same but at least AFP and SMB are encrypted...

Shows the need for xattr on your NFS mounts, that is not documented in other tutorials I've found.

That's interesting. But how does the restore work? Is this something that you can run from an install DVD?

Will it automount? I don't see any specific steps to make it automount. SMB shares setup this way don't automount for me.<p>What happens on the public network? Is it still going to try to find the volume by IP address and back up?

I do Time Machine over AFP, but a more interesting tutorial would be Time Machine over iSCSI+SSH. In fact, that might make for a fun project next weekend.

Is Time Machine actually practical for anyone on HN? It seems as if for anyone who has a non-trivial amount of changing data on their laptop, Time Machine would be completely ineffective over a Wifi network (or even wired) - it would just be constantly transferring data and thrashing disks; on my desktop, I could barely afford even 1 complete backup, yet most of the data being backed up is cache files / stuff I don't care about losing.<p>Am I wrong on this? I've never actually tried to get it set up... does it deal with times where the file share isn't connected?

Wow, a real Hacker. He is able to setup NFS on Ubuntu. ;)