Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD
On 10 jun 2009, at 21:09, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 02:52:06PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote: Chris Maness wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Greg Larkinglar...@freebsd.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Maness wrote: Is there an AFP client for FreeBSD? I have a mac with a gargantuan hard drive, and I would like to back up my FreeBSD server to it, and back up my mac to my FreeBSD server. I have seen where FreeBSD can be an AFP server, but there is little information on the client. Any suggestions? If you want to transfer dumps, netcat (nc) is the fastest way to go. I guess it doesn't come with OS X, since it is available from macports or darwinports. I was able to saturate the 10 Mbit connection between a laptop and a desktop when transferring a dump file. :-) Of course you can also pipe the dump output directly to netcat, but in that case the speed of the dump is the bottleneck. netcat (nc) comes with Leopard (10.5). so no need to get it from macports anymore gr Arno ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD
On 11 jun 2009, at 03:19, patrick wrote: Oh, I don't know about 10.4. Looks easy enough in 10.5: http://www.macresearch.org/nfs-exports-leopard It didn't change in the way it's described on that site from 10.4 to 10.5 the other, more OSX way of doing it using NetInfo changed though. NetInfo was replaced with OpenDirectory from 10.4 to 10.5 gr Arno ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Chris Manessch...@chrismaness.com wrote: an AFP server, but there is little information on the client. Any suggestions? rsync ? Cheers, Steph ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Maness wrote: Is there an AFP client for FreeBSD? I have a mac with a gargantuan hard drive, and I would like to back up my FreeBSD server to it, and back up my mac to my FreeBSD server. I have seen where FreeBSD can be an AFP server, but there is little information on the client. Any suggestions? Thanks, Chris Maness Hi Chris, It looks like this has some potential: http://sourceforge.net/projects/afpfs-ng Care to write a port for it? Cheers, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFKL/pB0sRouByUApARAi9SAJ4q1KubS8TvgS3sXPakz1L/maP7NgCeJuul XjHUeICU7DBm2DlQy53U3L0= =0PRJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD
an AFP server, but there is little information on the client. Any suggestions? rsync ? Cheers, Steph Well I am using the dump command, and I am not sure if I want to dump to the same partition that I am backing up. Can I use rsync to pipe the dump output via ssh? Thanks, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Greg Larkinglar...@freebsd.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Maness wrote: Is there an AFP client for FreeBSD? I have a mac with a gargantuan hard drive, and I would like to back up my FreeBSD server to it, and back up my mac to my FreeBSD server. I have seen where FreeBSD can be an AFP server, but there is little information on the client. Any suggestions? Thanks, Chris Maness Hi Chris, It looks like this has some potential: http://sourceforge.net/projects/afpfs-ng Care to write a port for it? Cheers, Greg - -- Greg Larkin Yea, I was looking for a port for it, but there isn't any. I don't have the time right now to port it or start a new port. Thanks, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Maness wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Greg Larkinglar...@freebsd.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Maness wrote: Is there an AFP client for FreeBSD? I have a mac with a gargantuan hard drive, and I would like to back up my FreeBSD server to it, and back up my mac to my FreeBSD server. I have seen where FreeBSD can be an AFP server, but there is little information on the client. Any suggestions? Thanks, Chris Maness Hi Chris, It looks like this has some potential: http://sourceforge.net/projects/afpfs-ng Care to write a port for it? Cheers, Greg - -- Greg Larkin Yea, I was looking for a port for it, but there isn't any. I don't have the time right now to port it or start a new port. Thanks, Chris Hi Chris, Will it at least compile on your system? If it does, and it works as expected, there's no need to write a port for it right away. If you're interested in adding it to the ports tree at some point later, I would be happy to provide some guidance. Cheers, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFKMADW0sRouByUApARAvonAJ0X+jCaivFtkWFXztoMpZBr/vR0IQCcDNUY o3n9jXe2ulzJr0dOXMa3yk4= =pYt7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD
MacOS X is unix-based. All it's GUI and other isn't unixlike, but base system is. You may compile unix commands on it. Maybe just ftpd, or rsync? On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Chris Maness wrote: Is there an AFP client for FreeBSD? I have a mac with a gargantuan hard drive, and I would like to back up my FreeBSD server to it, and back up my mac to my FreeBSD server. I have seen where FreeBSD can be an AFP server, but there is little information on the client. Any suggestions? Thanks, Chris Maness ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD
Well I am using the dump command, and I am not sure if I want to dump to the same partition that I am backing up. Can I use rsync to pipe the dump output via ssh? you don't need rsync to it. you need dump and ssh - as you said ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Wojciech Pucharwoj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: MacOS X is unix-based. All it's GUI and other isn't unixlike, but base system is. You may compile unix commands on it. Maybe just ftpd, or rsync? I use dump. I think dumping to the same partition that you are backing up is a bad idea. In order to use these methods I would have to dump, then transfer the dump file. If I can use rsync to pipe the dump output, that would probably work. I think I remember reading about that somewhere. Thanks, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 02:52:06PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote: Chris Maness wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Greg Larkinglar...@freebsd.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Maness wrote: Is there an AFP client for FreeBSD? I have a mac with a gargantuan hard drive, and I would like to back up my FreeBSD server to it, and back up my mac to my FreeBSD server. I have seen where FreeBSD can be an AFP server, but there is little information on the client. Any suggestions? If you want to transfer dumps, netcat (nc) is the fastest way to go. I guess it doesn't come with OS X, since it is available from macports or darwinports. I was able to saturate the 10 Mbit connection between a laptop and a desktop when transferring a dump file. :-) Of course you can also pipe the dump output directly to netcat, but in that case the speed of the dump is the bottleneck. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp1sn2puxRoA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD
Chris Maness schrieb: Well I am using the dump command, and I am not sure if I want to dump to the same partition that I am backing up. Can I use rsync to pipe the dump output via ssh? rsync works on files, dump on filesystems. If you want to use dump, the fine FreeBSD manuals says: # /sbin/dump -0uan -f - /usr | \ gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish \ targetu...@targetmachine.example.com\ dd of=/mybigfiles/dump-usr-l0.gz man ssh for setting up authentication with keys. On the mac, you must enable remote login under Systempanel - Sharing - Services if I remember correctly. -- Timm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD
On Wednesday, June 10, 2009, at 09:45AM, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: Is there an AFP client for FreeBSD? I have a mac with a gargantuan hard drive, and I would like to back up my FreeBSD server to it, and back up my mac to my FreeBSD server. I have seen where FreeBSD can be an AFP server, but there is little information on the client. Any suggestions? I regularly backup my FreeBSD boxes using dump and ssh to a very large hard drive on my mac. Here is how I do it: - Turn on SSH access on the mac (I believe in OSX.5 it is called Remote Login) - Setup PubkeyAuthentication: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/openssh.html (Section 14.11.6 - works the same on Mac and FreeBSD) - Wrote a script similar to this: *** #!/bin/sh /sbin/dump -1uaL -f - / | gzip -2 | ssh u...@192.168.0.xxx dd of=/Volumes/Remote\ Backup/root.gz /sbin/dump -1uaL -f - /tmp | gzip -2 | ssh u...@192.168.0.xxx dd of=/Volumes/Remote\ Backup/tmp.gz /sbin/dump -1uaL -f - /var | gzip -2 | ssh u...@192.168.0.xxx dd of=/Volumes/Remote\ Backup/var.gz /sbin/dump -1uaL -f - /usr | gzip -2 | ssh u...@192.168.0.xxx dd of=/Volumes/Remote\ Backup/usr.gz echo Dumps Done *** (of course adjust the user from user to your actual ssh username, adjust Remote\ Backup to your actual volume name, and fix the IP address to be the mac's actual IP address, and adjust the dump level as desired.) - Added this to crontab: *** # Run the backup script 5 4 * * * root/root/backup-script *** Runs every day backing up my unix partitions to the filenames given (root.gz, etc) on the volume on my Mac. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD
I use dump. I think dumping to the same partition that you are backing up is a bad idea. works fine and WILL work fine by design. just you have to create directory, flag it with nodump and dump to file in that directory ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD
Mac OS X supports NFS, so you could always mount your Mac on FreeBSD via NFS. Patrick On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Chris Manessch...@chrismaness.com wrote: Is there an AFP client for FreeBSD? I have a mac with a gargantuan hard drive, and I would like to back up my FreeBSD server to it, and back up my mac to my FreeBSD server. I have seen where FreeBSD can be an AFP server, but there is little information on the client. Any suggestions? Thanks, Chris Maness ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD
Wojciech Puchar wrote: I use dump. I think dumping to the same partition that you are backing up is a bad idea. works fine and WILL work fine by design. just you have to create directory, flag it with nodump and dump to file in that directory I forgot about nodump. Thanks. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD
I tried mounting a mac box to my FreeBSD server a while back, but I think I was not able to get it to go RW. How do you set up NFS as a service in OSX 10.4? That would be the best way as my backup scripts are already set up to do an NFS mount. Thanks, Chris On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:22 PM, patrickgibblert...@gmail.com wrote: Mac OS X supports NFS, so you could always mount your Mac on FreeBSD via NFS. Patrick On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Chris Manessch...@chrismaness.com wrote: Is there an AFP client for FreeBSD? I have a mac with a gargantuan hard drive, and I would like to back up my FreeBSD server to it, and back up my mac to my FreeBSD server. I have seen where FreeBSD can be an AFP server, but there is little information on the client. Any suggestions? Thanks, Chris Maness ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD
Oh, I don't know about 10.4. Looks easy enough in 10.5: http://www.macresearch.org/nfs-exports-leopard You could also use sshfs: http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/fusefs-sshfs/ It would be a bit slower, but reliable. Patrick On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Chris Manessch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I tried mounting a mac box to my FreeBSD server a while back, but I think I was not able to get it to go RW. How do you set up NFS as a service in OSX 10.4? That would be the best way as my backup scripts are already set up to do an NFS mount. Thanks, Chris On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:22 PM, patrickgibblert...@gmail.com wrote: Mac OS X supports NFS, so you could always mount your Mac on FreeBSD via NFS. Patrick On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Chris Manessch...@chrismaness.com wrote: Is there an AFP client for FreeBSD? I have a mac with a gargantuan hard drive, and I would like to back up my FreeBSD server to it, and back up my mac to my FreeBSD server. I have seen where FreeBSD can be an AFP server, but there is little information on the client. Any suggestions? Thanks, Chris Maness ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
