Subject: volume administrator
From: Temple, Matthew H. (Matthew_Temple@dfci.harvard.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 22:12:30 EDT
All,
We have two issues that we constantly bump into with
Netatalk, largely around backup. Although we can backup
and restore our Netatalk volumes with Legato Networker or
dump, we'd like to be able to use Retrospect. But since
Netatalk, unlike Cap, doesn't have the notion of an
"afp adminstrator" there's no way to mount several volumes owned
by different labs (we're a research organization). I've figured
out how to use the "Redhat private group" scheme to create a
volume administrator, but this scheme won't work if there are
different administrators across the machine. And, of course,
this won't help to back up individual users who aren't part of a
volume.
I do see how root can log in via a simple hack to afpd, but it
doesn't appear to have rootly privileges.
What do people do for backing up their shared netatalk volumes?
Matthew Temple
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