I have no idea - they could generate more business/sales if they DID.

Basically, it is pretty simple to do, though...

There are at least 2 ways to do this.

1. My "regular" Pogoplug which is running the stock firmware, also has Optware installed on it ... namely I have Samba installed. If you have Samba installed, you can push your TimeMachine backups to it.


2. My other Pogoplug-enabled device (a Dockstar, with the Kirkwood processor), has Jeff Doozan's Debian image installed on it. I used the standard Debian package feeds to set up Netatalk (OpenSource version of Apple's AFP, basically).

They both work like a charm w/ it. I have two 2TB drives hooked up to the Debian-ized Dockstar.

Certainly, one could do the same w/ Samba on the stock-ish Pogoplug as well. Optware has a netatalk package which I used to enable other devices as "TimeCapsules", so to speak.

Either Samba or Netatalk will work.

I get about 22MB/sec write to the Dockstar, 30MB/sec read, using AFP(afpd). I think Samba is just a bit slower. Not sure if you could do this w/ NFS on the stock-ish/optware setup, but I'm pretty sure NFS would work fine on the Debianized setup.

Here is an article I wrote up a year or two ago ... when I used to work w/ LinkStations... which are now also ARM/Feroceon/Kirkwood based.
http://buffalo.nas-central.org/wiki/Time_Machine_%26_Time_Capsule_support_on_...

It was written for Debian, generically. Variations w/i Linux will be very similar, if not identical.

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