puppet-timemachine

Overview

This Puppet module setups an AFP share using netatalk specifically configured to act like an Apple TimeCapsule device, to allow for easy backups from MacOS to a GNU/Linux server.

Usage

Simply configure where to store the backups and optionally how many MB to limit each user's backup to.

class { 'timemachine':
  location     => '/mnt/backup/timemachine',
  volsizelimit => '1000000', # 1TB per user backing up
}

By default this module will create directories for each real user on the server in the configured location as well as configuring a firewall rule. These can be disabled if desired, eg:

class { 'timemachine':
  location           => '/mnt/backup/timemachine',
  volsizelimit       => '1000000', # 1TB per user backing up
  manage_location    => false,
  manage_firewall_v4 => false,
  manage_firewall_v6 => false,
}

Refer to manifests/params.pp for all options and information on each one.

Requirements

Supported host operating systems:

• Debian (tested on Debian 8 Stable)
• Ubuntu (untested)

Note that this module manages netatalk and will cause issues if you are also using netatalk for general purpose AFP shares. It is recommend that you move any file shares to Samba, given that from Mavericks onwards AFP is deprecated in favour of SMB2 - although Time Machine seems to not have recieved this memo hence this module using netatalk/AFP :-)

Development

Contributions in the form of Pull Requests (or beer donations) are always welcome. Additional host OS support PRs particularly welcome.

License

This module is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"). See the LICENSE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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