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With Apple phasing out AFP in macOS 27 and Time Capsules officially reaching end-of-life, it's time to move network backups to proper SMB.

If you run a FreeBSD server, you can build a fast, rock-solid, and secure Time Machine target powered by ZFS and Samba - neatly isolated inside a FreeBSD jail using Bastille.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/01/28/time-machine-freebsd-jail/

Keep your macOS backups running smoothly via SMBv3 (with full vfs_fruit support) and full dataset quota control on ZFS!

#FreeBSD #macOS #TimeMachine #ZFS #BastilleBSD #Samba #SysAdmin #Backup #OwnYourData #SelfHosted #BSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData

@stefano how long have you been running this config for yourself? My experience is that Time Machine over Samba is “rock-solid” only until it isn’t. For probably 8 years now across multiple MacBooks and NASes I’ve had to trash my backup chain every 6-9 months because it gets in that state where it claims verification has failed and you can either

- keep the history but stop backing up
- or take new backups but lose all the history

I’d love to find a fix, but have never been able to.

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