we have amanda on os x sort-of working with hfstar, see 
http://web.brandeis.edu/pages/view/Bio/AmandaMacOSXCompileNotes

the main problem we have is with backups at level 2 or higher sometimes 
causing timeouts or sending lots of error messages to the logs. 

If you just try to run hfstar on Documents without using amanda, do you 
still get signal 13?


 - steven

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Doug 
Silver wrote:

> Has anyone gotten Mac OSX backups working?  I've gotten the clients to 
> compile 
> and it 'amchecks' fine, but the dumping seems to fail.  I've tried it with 
> both HFSTAR (based on gnutar 1.19) and the normal gnutar, but have not been 
> able to get it to consistently work.  It seems once I try to backup 
> everything in "Documents" for example, it bombs out with the 'signal 13' 
> error.  I also notice that during the backup, some of the normal 
> server-client connections fail.
> 
> Here are some of the errors:
> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/local/bin/hfstar
> sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/local/bin/hfstar -f... -
> sendbackup: info end
> sendbackup: error [/usr/local/bin/hfstar got signal 13]
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> TIA.
> 
> -doug
>