Ben Kochie wrote:
>
> yes.. my fault.. i forgot all about dave.. I wish there were other
> options for SMB on mac's, from what I've heard.. dave isn't the greatest
> thing in the world.
>
> Yura Pismerov wrote:
> >
> > Ben Kochie wrote:
> > >
> > > macintosh clients have been discussed before, but as far as what I've
> > > seen, the best way to keep mac files on an amanda backup schedual is to
> > > keep the mac files on a unix based (linux+netatalk) fileserver
> >
> > BTW, there is SMB network implementation for Mac.
> > As far as I remembere it is called Dave.
> > I guess it would be possible to utilize smbclient to backup Macs.
> > Not sure if Dave can create SMB shares though.
> >
You're going to lose a lot of filesystem information if you back up a
Mac using Dave and SMB (the filetype/creator codes, custom icons, etc.).
There is no very convenient way to use AMANDA with "classic" MacOS. It
may be useful with OS X.
If you're serious about backing up the Macs, I would recommend using
Dantz Software's Retrospect (1). It's quite different from Amanda in
it's approach to backup, but quite suitable for Macs.
One strategy you could use to collect the Mac backup along with AMANDA
would be to use Retrospect's "backup to an FTP server" feature, then
back up the FTP server folder with AMANDA.
Disclaimer: I don't work for Dantz, I'm just a satisfied customer (who
uses AMANDA to back up all our linux and *nix boxes and Retrospect to
back up the Macs)
steven
1. http://www.dantz.com/
