Off-course you want to use timemachine now when you’ve set up your AFP server, I found everything whats needed in 3 easy steps on macosxhints.com. on your local mac in Terminal type the following command. hdiutil create -size $SIZE -type SPARSEBUNDLE -nospotlight -volname “Backup of $HOSTNAME” -fs “Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+” -verbose ~/Desktop/$HOSTNAME_$MAC_ADDRESS.sparsebundle $SIZE = the maximum [...]
If your first question is ‘why not linux?’ is that I truly think Solaris is a better and more mature operating system. Solaris has native ZFS wich is still a major issue with the GNU part of linux. Solaris is also very ready for what you expect from a NAS and you can download it [...]