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Paul Mucur
Personal blog · mudge.name · on HN as mudgemeisterprogramming
Paul Mucur's personal blog at mudge.name covers programming. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Using Raspberry Pi for Networked Time Machine Backups”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Paul Mucur's guide to using a Raspberry Pi as a Time Machine backup target with ext4 and Samba, rather than the HFS+/Netatalk setup that most HOWTOs describe.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The personal web site of consultant Technical/Engineering Lead Paul Mucur.
Most-linked posts?
- Using Raspberry Pi for Networked Time Machine Backups2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-04-01
What Hacker News says?
This is what I did, too. But use ext4 instead of HFS+, and use Samba instead of Netatalk. With HFS+, the bundle would get corrupt after a few days. With Netatalk, a sudden power outage would corrupt the whole thing. Don't listen to 99% of blog posts on this. They all tell you to use HFS+/Netatalk. None of those authors have actually used that backup solution for any extended period of time, because if they did, they…
Comment linking /2019/11/12/using-a-raspberry-pi-for-time-machine/
on “WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted”Submitted Implementing Set#to_proc and Hash#to_proc in Ruby as a story · 28 points
HN discussionYes. I used these instructions: https://mudge.name/2019/11/12/using-a-raspberry-pi-for-time-...
Comment linking /2019/11/12/using-a-raspberry-pi-for-time-machine/
on “APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS”Submitted Using Raspberry Pi for Networked Time Machine Backups as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Cargo-cult HOWTOs is the only explanation I can think of. Pretty much. When I google "raspberry Pi time machine," every result I see, except one, tells you to do the HFS+/AFP method. These results include content churning sites like techradar and howtogeek. The only site that recommends ext4/smb that comes up, fourth on my list of results, is this one: https://mudge.name/2019/11/12/using-a-raspberry-pi-for-time-...
Comment linking /2019/11/12/using-a-raspberry-pi-for-time-machine/
on “APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS”Submitted Passing Blocks in Ruby Without &block as a story · 2 points
HN discussion