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I want to sugest power saving changes after installing and handling creation of Time Capsule for Time Machine for my home network ( form my previous article ). I like when it's quiet. And like when disks does not spin, when it's not necessary to do so. So if you usually backup once in some hours and main time (Night and a part of the day) you do not touch a Time Machine... You would probably want to slow down your disks for that time. Fortunately Linux does it very well. And support of it is encoded into Linux core (kernel). You just would need a UI for this possibilities and a bit of knowledge and luck ;) Warning: Operations described farther may be potentially hazardous to your hardware. So now after you are warned ;) let's continue. I guess I will not touch those hazardous functions, but you may, typing wrong letters to this command in Linux shell... So be careful. Better read manuals for farther commands and so on... Anyway what we need is a UI. And...

The real article name might be something like:  Configuring Raspbery Pi to serve like a Time Capsule with Netatalk 3.0 for Mountain Lion.  But it's too long ;) Here I will describe the process of using Raspberry Pi like a Time Machine in my network. To be able to backup your MAC's remotely (Like it would be NAS of some kind). It assumes you have a Raspberry Pi and have installed a Raspbian there and have a ssh connection, or somehow having access to it's console. Refer to my previous article for details . Now that we have a Pi that is ready for action let's animate it. So to make it suit you as a Time Capsule (NAS) for your MAC's you need to do those basic steps: - connect and configure USB hard drive(s) - install support of HFS+ filesystem to be able to use MAC's native filesystem - make mount (auto-mount on boot) of your hard drive - install Avahi and Netatalk demons - configure Netatalk daemon to make it all serve as a Time Machine - configure ...