https://sigtar.com/tags/mini-mac/ Recent content in Mini-Mac on sigtar.com Hugo en-nz Thu, 11 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +1200 https://sigtar.com/2013/07/11/zfs-share-for-time-machine-backups/ Thu, 11 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +1200 https://sigtar.com/2013/07/11/zfs-share-for-time-machine-backups/ <p>I&rsquo;ve tried using a share for time machine before, but due to the nature of how time machine works it eventually consumed all the spare space that is available on that particular share.</p> <p>bring on zfs quotas&hellip; (my drive on my mini mac is 100GB, so 200GB should be enough for a few variations)</p> <p><strong>zfs set quota=200G unprotected/timemachine</strong></p> <p>This adds a artificial limit to your zfs filesystem, making sure that time machine does not consume more than 200 gigabytes of space.</p>