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I would like to integrate my Time Machine backups with a manual script that will create a compressed and encrypted DMG image from some folders.

Reading about this issue, I can create a DMG, for instance

$ hdiutil create -verbose -encryption AES-256 -format UDBZ -stdinpass -srcfolder DIR FILE.DMG

The problem is that I don't have enough space to do that in the wild. So I was thinking about using my linux server as storage, but I don't know how.

How can I create a DMG remotely via SSH on a linux server?

I have tried to see if hdiutil has a "dump to stdout" option, but I didn't see that, otherwise I'd be all set.

Note that I'd prefer just using macOS tools, without recompiling, if possible.

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    Did you try with a named pipe (and a process which transfer from the pipe to the Linux box over ssh)? – nohillside♦ Jun 5 '19 at 9:48
  • @nohillside No, I don't know how to use pipes except for something like cat a.txt | grep something... – senseiwa Jun 5 '19 at 10:03
  • Ok. Need to get back in front of a Mac first, may take a day or two. And it may not work... – nohillside♦ Jun 5 '19 at 12:01
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    Unfortunately hdiutil doesn't seem to allow to write to a named pipe, so this option doesn't seem to work – nohillside♦ Jun 5 '19 at 15:08
  • While it's not completely clear to me from your question as to what you're trying to do, I can tell you that I store my TimeMachine back-ups on an NFS-mounted volume. So that's an option if your linux server is on your local network. If it has to be over ssh, then look into sshfs (available via brew) which can be used to mount remote filesystems over ssh. – woolfie Jun 6 '19 at 12:43

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