The primary problem I had was that the OS X sparsebundle would get corrupted and unrepairable with the DiskUtility after a few hours of doing the first backup. If you google sparesebundle nas errors you'll see many people experience this with
NAS's. I could not get it to work with NFS or Samba, so the only thing left for me was to try AFP. I considered installing Debian, which I knew would work, but I couldn't get to redboot without a serial connection. Rightly or wrongly, I was also worried Debian would be slower - let's face it, this machine is not fast.
So, I eventually installed the tinky-ls firmware via the webgui, and then unpicked the Gigansas AFP package manolazza posted here http://rapidshare.com/files/147381009/Ginanas-APPS.rar.html
Incidentally, the reason I upgraded to tinky-ls, is because it has a user overlay, where you can store your own apps and files, and it also has hooks to allow you to create your own startup scripts that are not overwritten when the system reboots. I couldn't see any natural home for user files/apps with the MRT firmware. I might be wrong though. Tinky-ls also has ssh installed.
I picked out the following files from the package:
Quote:
afpd -the service binary
libraries - libcrypto.so.0.9.7 and libdb-4.2.so
config files - afpd.conf, AppleVolumes.default and AppleVolumes.System
user access modules - uams (directory)
I placed the files in the following directories, so they they would not be overwritten on reboot.
Quote:
/system/overlay/bin/afpd
/system/overlay/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7
/system/overlay/lib/libdb-4.2.so
/system/overlay/conf/afpd.conf (you will need to make the conf directory with mkdir)
/system/overlay/conf/AppleVolumes.default
/system/overlay/conf/AppleVolumes.System
/system/overlay/conf/uams
I populated the config files as follows:
afpd.conf:
Quote:
# Timemachine
"TimeMachine" -defaultvol /system/overlay/conf/AppleVolumes.default -systemvol /system/overlay/conf/AppleVolumes.system -uamlist uams_guest.so -uampath /system/overlay/conf/uams -unixcodepage "UTF8"
AppleVolumes.default:
Quote:
/mnt/IDE1/timemachine "Timemachine"
AppleVolumes.System (although not sure if this is required):
Quote:
# ($Id)
#
# Use at your own risk. No guarantees express or implied.
#
# Try to use MacPerl script 'ICDumpSuffixMap' included in /usr/doc
# to download file mapping list from your Internet Config Preference.
#
# .
#
# default translation -- note that CR <-> LF translation is done on all
# files of type TEXT (if crlf is set in volume's options).
# The first line turns off translation for files of unknown type,
# the third turns this translation on.
#. "????" "????" Unix Binary Unix application/octet-stream
#. "BINA" "UNIX" Unix Binary Unix application/octet-stream
#. "TEXT" "ttxt" ASCII Text SimpleText text/plain
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.ani "ANIi" "GKON" Animated NeoChrome GraphicConverter
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.bat "TEXT" "ttxt" MS-DOS Batch File SimpleText
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.pac "STAD" "GKON" Atari STAD Image GraphicConverter
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.pc1 "Dega" "GKON" Atari Degas Image GraphicConverter
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.pcs "PICS" "GKON" Animated PICTs GraphicConverter
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.pcx "PCXx" "GKON" PC PaintBrush GraphicConverter
.pdb "TEXT" "RSML" Brookhaven PDB file RasMac
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.pi1 "Dega" "GKON" Atari Degas Image GraphicConverter
.pi2 "Dega" "GKON" Atari Degas Image GraphicConverter
.pi3 "Dega" "GKON" Atari Degas Image GraphicConverter
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.pkg "HBSF" "SITx" AppleLink Package StuffIt Expander
.pl "TEXT" "McPL" Perl Source MacPerl
.plt "HPGL" "GKON" HP GL/2 GraphicConverter
.pm "PMpm" "GKON" Bitmap from xv GraphicConverter
.pm3 "ALB3" "ALD3" PageMaker 3 Document PageMaker
.pm4 "ALB4" "ALD4" PageMaker 4 Document PageMaker
.pm5 "ALB5" "ALD5" PageMaker 5 Document PageMaker
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.pntg "PNTG" "ogle" Macintosh Painting PictureViewer
.ppd "TEXT" "ALD5" Printer Description PageMaker
.ppm "PPGM" "GKON" Portable Pixmap GraphicConverter image/x-portable-pixmap
.prn "TEXT" "R*ch" Printer Output File BBEdit
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.pt4 "ALT4" "ALD4" PageMaker 4 Template PageMaker
.pt5 "ALT5" "ALD5" PageMaker 5 Template PageMaker
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.qxt "XTMP" "XPR3" QuarkXpress Template QuarkXpress
.raw "BINA" "GKON" Raw Image GraphicConverter
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.rgb "SGI " "GKON" SGI Image GraphicConverter image/x-rgb
.rgba "SGI " "GKON" SGI Image GraphicConverter image/x-rgb
.rib "TEXT" "RINI" Renderman 3D Data Renderman
.rif "RIFF" "GKON" RIFF Graphic GraphicConverter
.rle "RLE " "GKON" RLE image GraphicConverter
.rme "TEXT" "ttxt" Text Readme SimpleText
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.rsc "rsrc" "RSED" Resource File ResEdit
.rsrc "rsrc" "RSED" Resource File ResEdit
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.rtx "TEXT" "R*ch" Rich Text BBEdit text/richtext
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# Last Updated Jan 2, 2002
# Use at your own risk. Take care !
#
# I'd like to dedicate this as follows code to Miss.Tamaki Imazu
#
# Kazuhiko Okudaira the Nursery Teacher
#
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# Nov 29, 2002
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Now all that is required is a script to start the service when the NAS boots up. I put a very simple script in /system/overlay/rc.d:
S75afp.sh:
Quote:
#!/bin/sh
#
AFP="/system/overlay/bin/afpd -F /system/overlay/conf/afpd.conf"
$AFP
Setup complete. The above configuration will give you a guest share called Timemachine, which can mounted from finder on your Mac - afp://nasip/Timemachine. The initial backup of almost 300GB took a couple of days, but now the hourly backups take just a minute or two. I experienced AFP to be at least twice as fast as samba or nfs on this machine, but note that I have no stats to back this impression up.
Lastly, I wanted to use my second 1TB disk to backup the backup, but not wanting to use software RAID mirroring due to the performance hit, I used rysnc and cron. To install rsync, type ipkg-cl rsync.
Then I created a daily cronjob to run this command:
Quote:
rsync --delete -avhP /mnt/IDE1/timemachine/ /mnt/IDE3/timemachine
Not being sure if the root cronjob file is recreated on every boot (just have not tested it), I added it to savedata.conf file in /system/overlay/savedata.conf to be safe.
Quote:
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root:root
I hope somebody somewhere finds this guide useful, perhaps it might save another NAS from landfill! Happy to answer any questions, and any suggestions for improvement would be welcome. I'd love to get pam authentication working, as I tried, then failed miserably. Also, if somebody knows how to make a package and could find a host somewhere, that would very awesome too.
L
EDIT: Reading up on afp, I don't think the AppleVolumes.system is required at all
