Subject: OSXS Backup (Was Re: Netatalk on Mac OSX)
From: Aaron Faby (aaron@yourlink.net)
Date: Fri Sep 08 2000 - 11:58:05 EDT
I used to admin an entire OS X Server environment, and I came up with
a simple backup solution.
You will need one Mac OS machine running Retrospect. On one of your OS
X boxes you will need an HFS partition that can be shared. Write a shell
script that will tar.gz all of your important files on each box and
automatically ftp the tar file to the box with the HFS partition and
place the file on that partition somewhere. Run this script in cron to
execute everynight (or whenever you want).
Then on the box running retrospect, mount the HFS drive off the OS X
Server
box and tell retrospect to backup that volume. It works well enough for
most operations. You could even take it a step further and encrypt your
data in the process or do whatever else you want to do in the backup
script.
Aaron Faby
Harry Zink/Netatalk List wrote:
>
> on 9/7/00 10:04 AM, TimY at timy@darkhorse.com wrote:
>
> > I would like to know how everyone else it
> > tackling the backup problems.
>
> OS/X's inability to support proper Backup solutions has made me reject it at
> every opportunity, and settle for ASIP servers instead. So far, I have not
> found an acceptable solution to this issue - and Apple hasn't provided any
> either
>
> Harry
> --
> CAN'T SEE MAC IN CHOOSER UNDER RedHat 6.2: If you get errors starting
> AppleTalk under RedHat 6.2 and Mandrake 7.1, you need to manually add "alias
> net-pf-5 appletalk" to your /etc/conf.modules file.
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