[TN#002] TimeMachine Warning
In case you ever wonder what these messages in system.log mean: Apr 2 13:12:34 mac com.apple.backupd[20052]: Warning: Destination /Volumes/Machine does not support Server Reply Cache Apr 2 13:12:34 mac...
View Article[TN#003] Slow AFP read performance
Throughout the years the have been numerous reports of problems with Netatalk where the AFP read performance is very, very bad. Our investigations have shown that this is caused by subtle TCP/IP stack...
View Article[TN#004] 10.6.3 and TimeMachine over AFP image size limitation
With OS X 10.6 .3 it’s not possible anymore to limit the size of TM backups by precreating the TM image with a fixed size. With the OS X 10.6.3 Update Apple has introduced a new feature into...
View Article[TN#005] 10.7 LION, Time Machine and Netatalk/AFP
The state of Apple’s Time Machine in Lion Affected Operating Systems: Mac OS X Lion 10.7.0 Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1 Time Machine Symptoms: TM reports backup verification failed and wants to restart from...
View Article[TN#007] Announcing remote Netatalk AFP servers with Avahi
Let’s assume that we are advertising for a Netatalk server at IP address 192.168.1.100, named “Netatalk-Server”. First off, let’s create a hosts entry for Avahi in the /etc/avahi/hosts file:...
View Article[TN#008] Limiting the available size of Time Machine volumes
With the help of a Netatalk configuration option (volsizelimit) it is possible to limit the available space of AFP shares. The implementation of this feature received an important change in the release...
View Article[TN#009] Netatalk and ZFS nbmand property
Running the Netatalk test-suite with a volume on a ZFS set with ZFS property nbmand set to on causes nearly all tests to fail. The reason is (and it’s something Oracle hides well under the covers): it...
View Article[TN#010] Using libatalk from third party apps
Third party developers wishing to add Netatalk 3 support to their applications have two choices Directly integrate libatalk from the Netatalk source tree Link with libatalk which is a shared library in...
View Article[TN#011] Capturing AFP network traffic
GUI Tool for packet capturing You can use a nice program called CocoaPacketAnalyzer in order to capture AFP network traffic. Download and extract the program from above link. Start it. Press...
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