[Samba] 4.8.5 + TimeMachine = Disk identity changed on every connect, cannot backup - SOLVE

[Daniel Smolik]

I found a problem. In Debian Buster is samba compiled without   --enable-spotlight without this TimeMachine doesn´t 
work. Recompile samba with  --enable-spotlight and all works.

Regards
                 Dan


> I spent two days looking for the solution. And yet I have  workaround. In first time make backup with AFP. After this 
> you can stop AFP and switch to SAMBa and TimeMachine backup works.
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>     Regards
>                     Dan
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>> Hi,
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>> I configured Samba 4.8.5 on Debian (Buster)  with vfs_fruit as a TimeMachine destination and while it detects it and 
>> does the initial backup to some extent (30GB out of 200GB),
>> TimeMachine then fails with a message about the disk identity having changed.
>> Options are “don’t backup” and “backup anyway”. When using “backup anyway”, the backup creates a secondary sparse 
>> image and starts from scratch, and won’t even touch the existing sparse image.
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>>     My Mac is running in VirtualBox. I have using latest beta Mojave. I only found one person with same problem. I 
>> don't know if problem is in Mac or Samba.
>> If I use the same Mac over AFP backing up works.
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>>     Regards  Dan
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