I have a new mac G5 Xserve and have been told that Amanda will work
just find as a back up. I am already running Amanda (2.4.2) with an old Linux
machine serving as a tape host. 

I haven't found any instructions or accounts on installing Amanda on
OSX machines. ( I suspect this is simply because the terms "Mac OS X
server" wind up matching to much indvidually, but nothing as a string
- making it hard for me to find previous related posts.)

Can a kind soul point me in the right direction?

Will I be able to compile the 2.4.2 client on OS X or will I have to
upgrade to 2.4.4?

I am currently using gnu tar and zip with linux. Will I have trouble
with Mac versions of gnu tar and zip programs?

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Josh Kuperman                       
josh AT saratoga.lib.ny DOT us