[macosx-unix] amanda backup

[Isaac Levy]

Hi Jan,

On Mar 5, 2006, at 11:33 AM, Jared ''Danger'' Earle wrote:

> On 5 Mar 2006, at 17:27, Jan Schaumann wrote:
>
>> But why didn't they make dump(8) work, then, too?
>
> Because it's very, very broken?


I don't officially know what Apple's 'best practices' are for dump  
type backups here, but the functionality you are looking for is  
historically handled by making disk images - (or, file-backed memory  
disks, in the *BSD world).

With that, disk images can be manipulated from the cli using hdiutil 
(1), and from the Finder using 'Disk Utility.app'.

One can restore entire disks from disk images using the Apple  
installer tools, etc...  The disk images can be encrypted, (AES), you  
can make sparse disk images, whatever.  It's all pretty mature at  
this point.  I've used disk images on apple for many years, in many  
contexts and applications, and I find them really delightful to work  
with- ease and maturity for the user design that I miss on other  
platforms.

--
Just my .02¢ here, I'm not sure if your looking for an 'Apple  
Solution' for backups here, or just trying to get Amanda to work...

As an aside, this article explains how to get Amanda working, using  
Apple UFS formatted volumes, not sure if it's useful for you or not:
https://webserver.brandeis.edu/pages/view/Bio/AmandaMacOSXCompileNotes

--
As another aside, Bacula seems to have a much larger group of OSX  
platform users:
http://www.bacula.org/

I don't use either, I'm just regurgitating what I understand from  
seeing Dan Langille lecture about Bacula- I hope my rambling helps  
more than confuses the subject.

Best,
.ike