How to backup with time machine on a network share

Ingredients: Debian, Netatalk, Avahi, some trickery.

Step 1: recompile netatalk adding SSL Support: blackmac.de.

You can safely ignore the ”.passwd” stuff, because afpd uses PAM for user authentication.

Hint: disable the atalk protocol handlers in /etc/default/netatalk, for a faster startup:

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