[PLUG] Re: Network Backups

[John Cirillo]

Right, there has to be a MAC router. Either a real Mac router, an NT server running
the Mac router service, or one of the linux boxes with the -router (or -seed, I
guess in non-asun versions of netatalk) command.
But-- I have to abandon this method. Just realized that transferring in this way
does not preserve the data and resource forks, so you end up with a bunch of useless
files.  Seems it has to be done from the Mac side. I tried copying files at the Mac
to my linux-netatalk machine using chooser, and the files copy and execute fine from
the linux box over the net.   Netatalk seems to take care of the forks in the
.AppleDouble file in each directory.
Well phooey, I'm not anxious to write any scripts on a Mac!  Have to re-think
this...

John

Charles Fultz wrote:

> > Hi Charles,
> >
> > I've used tkchooser before. It is a kind of front-end for samba and afpfs. The
> > author of it wanted to make it work for appleshares too, but he couldn't get
> > afpfs working either.
>
> Oooohhh... for some reason I thought it did it's own implemenation of
> AppleTalk.
>
> > Fortunately, last night I got afpfs working and succesfully mounted a
> > networked mac volume on linux. What a thrill. I could read files on it.
> > Didn't try writing but that's not important.
> > The afpfs code is supposedly unstable but I will  keep using it on my
> > experimental machine and see if it crashes and burns anything.
> >
> > The secret to getting afpfs working is that a router needs to be specified in
> > the netatalk atalkd.conf file, either an existing router or let the linux box
> > become one with the -router command. Anyone wanting the details let me know.
>
> So, I have two UNIX-like machines at home both running atalkd.  One is
> a router/gateway, but I assume that what you are referring to is a
> machine running atalkd with the the -router option, right?
>
> > Meanwhile I'd be interested in hearing anyone else's Mac backup solutions
> > using linux/other unices.
>
> Nothing yet...
>
> Charlie