How to Use Your Raspberry Pi as a Time Machine Backup Server for macOS

Guide: kore.cc/tm-raspi/
Here you will find all commands used in the video.

Have fun! If you run into trouble, feel free to comment or dm.

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Using HFS+:

If you want to use HFS+, you will need to format the drive on your Mac before. Choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled), disable journaling with this command in your Mac terminal:

sudo diskutil disableJournal NameOfYourVolume

To get your pi to understand HFS+, use:

sudo apt-get install hfsprogs hfsplus

Edit the fstab as shown in 04:36 with "hfsplus" instead of "ext4".

Keep in mind that this enables you to also use the drive locally on your Mac but I do not recommend this since you need to be more careful with unmounting the drive and in some cases, it still gets corrupted even if you did everything right. For something as crucial as backups, I highly recommend using the method shown in the video as ext4 is much more stable when used with a Raspberry Pi.