Setting up Time Machine Backups from a Mac to a Linux Machine over the Local Network
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Setting up Time Machine Backups from a Mac to a Linux Machine over the Local Network
About a month ago, I upgraded my desk setup with an 11-inch iPad Pro that I’m now using as a secondary display. I am still loving this setup. Unfortunately, though, because I want to keep the iPad Pro plugged in to my Thunderbolt dock at all times in order to use Sidecar in wired mode, I had to free up a USB port and unplug the external SSD that I was using as my main Time Machine backup destination. Since I was then out of available ports, I started looking for a wireless solution to keep my Time Machine backups running on a daily basis.
While I could have simply found a way to add more ports on my desk, that would have meant investing in a bigger dock, or adding one more dongle to my poorly-hidden cable mess on the desk. So instead, I wanted to leverage the Linux machine in the living room that I’ve been using for a bunch of experiments lately. The idea was to plug my external SSD into the Linux machine, share a folder from the SSD on my local network, and then set that shared folder as a Time Machine backup destination on my Mac.