Turn your Proxmox host into a fully functional Apple Time Machine backup server using Samba + Avahi — compatible with all modern macOS versions
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The following are the steps to connect a USB external disk to proxmox host and enable Time machine. The instructions work for macOS 10.13 → 15.7.1
1. Connect your USB disk and mount it # lsblk # find your USB disk, e.g. /dev/sdb fdisk /dev/sdb # create GPT + one partition (n → enter → enter → w) mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1 mkdir -p /mnt/usb-timemachine blkid /dev/sdb1 # copy UUID Edit /etc/fstab: