Re: backing up the "AppleShare PDS" file with Retrospect?

[Gary R. Bernstein]

Not withstanding all of the fine answers that have been posted previous to
mine, check out:

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~dbakkers/ashare_helper/

Among other things, it makes a backup of the pds file, the users and
groups file and monitors the server to make sure it is running. It is
freeware and he has been keeping up it up to date. He just released
version 1.7.1. It's a young application, but it has been running on my
machines for about 3 months. I just downloaded the latest version.



On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Steve Maser wrote:

> Can this be done?
> 
> I have Retrospect 4.3 running on my ASIP 6.3.x server.  The invisible
> "AppleShare PDS" file is always "open", so it's not getting backed up.
> 
> Anybody know an easy way of backing this file up, short of turning
> the file server off, making a copy of it, then backing up the copy?
> 
> (Or am I missing something in Retrospect that would let me do this?
> I back up other invisible files with no problems.)
> 
> 
> - Steve
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Re: backing up the "AppleShare PDS" file with Retrospect?

[Eric Ullman]

Hi Steve!

Retrospect ignores AppleShare PDS files on purpose. In fact, I don't believe
they will even show up in the browser window when you do a manual file
selection. We ignore them because we keep track of and restore file
privileges separately.

If you MUST back up a PDS file, check out Apple's Tech Info Library article
#16492:

  http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n16492

I hope this helps!

Eric Ullman
Dantz Development


Steve Maser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Can this be done?
> 
> I have Retrospect 4.3 running on my ASIP 6.3.x server.  The invisible
> "AppleShare PDS" file is always "open", so it's not getting backed up.
> 
> Anybody know an easy way of backing this file up, short of turning
> the file server off, making a copy of it, then backing up the copy?
> 
> (Or am I missing something in Retrospect that would let me do this?
> I back up other invisible files with no problems.)



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Re: backing up the "AppleShare PDS" file with Retrospect?

[mark . maytum]

I think as long as the AppleShare server is running when you do your backups, permissions get backed up automatically.  If you ever have to restore an entire ASIP volume, following the Retrospect instructions (you do a second restore for privs.) works just fine.  







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Can this be done?