Thanks Kevin,
I have done a couple of different set ups, Retrospect, which is running on a
Mac, needs to have the volumes mounted onto it's desktop, which is fine -- no
problem there. The main problem is that Retrospect does two rather nasty things
*It doessnt recognise symbolic links as files
*It decompresses all the stuff in /usr and tries to recompress it onto tape for
archiving. Which in my case expanded around 650Mb into 12Gb, then tried to
recompress, which would have taken about 6 - 9 Gb!
Now, I have been swapping e-mails with Retrospect asking for details of when
a client would be developed, and they have said the following:
> I've submitted this feature request. If you know of others who have the same
> request they can certainly let us know if they'd like.
>
> Matthew Tevenan
> Technical Support Specialist
> Dantz Development Corporation
> 925.253.3050
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
So, if you are in a similar position (remembering that Retrospect is now also
available on Windows) then please let them know.
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Kevin Diffily wrote regarding Re: Backing up via
Appletalk:
> Try the following > echo "/home
Retrospect_Backup">>/etc/atalk/AppleVolumes.default > #This will make a share
called Retrospect_Backup > #Create a user retrospect.
> #Give that user access to /home
> #This will allow the user Retrospect access to all directories in home.
>
> >I need to be able to backup my Linux box via Dantz Retrospect,
> >running on a Mac
> >and backing up onto 8Gb Travan tapes (the Retrospect does a good job
> >of backing
> >up and restoring files).
> >
> >At the moment I can backup up user account partitions because they can be
> >mounted onto the Mac desktop with netatalk, in order for Retrospect to back
> >up the user accounts' home directory I need to initially mount it onto the
> >desktop (after this Retrospect then simply requests a password to access that
> >partition). So I need a way in which I can mount either all the partitions or
> >the whole box in one lump. Anyone got any clues about how I can manage this?
> >
> >Or do I need to create a backup file that can be further backed up
> >onto the Mac
> >-- that would be a drag.
> >
> >Retrospect can access drives on machines like WinNT via TCP/IP, but it needs
> >client software installed on the client box, which Dantz do not provide for
> >Linux :(
> >
> >Your help here would really be appreciated.
> >
> >Alan
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