From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 15:45:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AA5416A4CE for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:45:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0876B43D45 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:45:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maxsec@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 58so190037wri for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:45:38 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=tYEZZbS48J75raBOzuRVq9CQShK+cnTZwyzR/1YV0kVFePfmdp/Z9nhhF6sSoxy0Nz67wEviDBIOSKMCDzcJ0w7H1dUGu3oyeIDKQlJVSgTJAMww3wN8uo6kB7I5hTXHaULy6alMQ5aaxvxVm8eSCeTrybZqZNGRFAW/SQc9NFI= Received: by 10.54.53.51 with SMTP id b51mr2393wra; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:45:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.4.54 with HTTP; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:45:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <72cf361e050110074527068207@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:45:38 +0000 From: Martin Hepworth To: Alan Curtis In-Reply-To: <5FAD9AE2-60C9-11D9-A934-000A959EB894@ieee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <5FAD9AE2-60C9-11D9-A934-000A959EB894@ieee.org> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netatalk, NFS, OS X and backup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Martin Hepworth List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:45:39 -0000 have you looked at amanda? Uses it's daemons to transfer the data, and you can select where to comress (on client or server). works well when used with hfstar on MacOS X ... restores are normally done by the admin and currently its a cli...no plans AFAIK to make this a gui. --- Martin On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:29:59 -0500, Alan Curtis wrote: > I need some advice about integrating my FreeBSD server with some Macs > running OS X. > > I have a server running FreeBSD 5.3 with NFS and netatalk enabled, a > Powerbook G4 running OS X 10.3.7 and they are connected through a > wireless network. I used the Powerbook to administer the server using > ssh, which works well. I would also like to use the server to backup > files (for multiple users) from the Powerbook. I have played around > with both NFS and netatalk (afpd) and both seem to be working, in that > I can manually mount the shares on the Powerbook. I have got the NFS > share to automount on the Powerbook but not the afp share. I can copy > files to and from both the nfs and afp mounted shares, including > resource forks. I have played with various backup utilities including > rsync, psync and rdiff-backup with varying degrees of success. > > Some observations/questions > > 1. netatalk afp seems consistently and significantly faster than nfs. > Is this to be expected or might I have a problem with nfs? If so how do > I diagnose and fix it? > > 2. I would prefer to use nfs, because I can automount it on the > Powerbook and run a cron (actually anacron) script to backup the > multiple users. I haven't yet worked out how (or if) I can do this with > afp (this is really a Mac question I know). > > 3. I would like to use a backup scheme which is automatic, invisible to > the user, yet configured in a way that the archive can be navigated, > and files appear in folders on the Mac finder in a consistent way (with > resource forks set up correctly). > > All of this seems almost possible, yet I don't seem to have got it just > right yet. Has anyone one any insight they can spread or experiences > they can share of a similar set up? > > Alan > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >