pauldonovan
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Regarding curly brace things in aidsk.service, is this correct?
* mac-address: gotten from 'ifconfig | grep ether' (this is the easy part)
* freenas-name: the machine's hostname as "myfreenas" or "myfreenas.local"?
* generate-a-uuid: any random string, or what?
I believe freenas-name should actually be timemachine-sharename - the name you gave the share when setting it up. Mine is Timemachine. I had that part of the avahi registering working a while ago using these instructions, which confirms it's the share name:
http://www.bootc.net/archives/2010/11/07/apple-time-machine-and-netatalk/
But it doesn't really matter initially. That part is only so that the Mac can find the backup automatically and suggest it in the "Choose Backup Disk" window. Well, it will matter if you have a system crash and need to restore from a backup - your time machine backup would be found automatically. I need to play with this as, as I said, I did have that working at one point.
Paul