[Veritas-bu] OS X as a UNIX client

Thanks, yes I've noticed that. I'm actually just backing up /Users, 
/root, /private which catches pretty much everything important. Apps 
can always be re-installed.

Cheers

James

On 21 Oct 2004, at 20:24, Christopher Jay Manders wrote:

>
> A little delayed, perhaps, but MacOS X has one big issue that has not 
> been addressed yet.
> That is to do with the 'Bundle Bit'.
> In  Mac OSX the applications that appear in the GUI are actually 
> directories with lots of little files (DLL-type libraries and things 
> mostly) and with the bundle bit on on the directory. So, you are 
> actually clicking on a directory (named the app) when you open an app 
> with MacOSX. then, when you open an app it changes the timestamp of 
> files in the directory, and so can cause GIGabytes of extra backups. 
> We have to exclude all applications. Luckily that is easy enough with 
> include_list and exclude_list files
>
>
> HTH
>
> Cheers!
>
> --Chris.
>
>
>
>
>> NBU has no problem with the HFS+ filesystem that is the OSX default, 
>> and
>> properly backs up and restores both forks of an OSX data file.
>>
>> But don't take my word for it, please do a test restore or two to
>> convince yourself!  ;-)
>>
>> HTH
>> rob
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:01:36PM +0100 or thereabouts, 
>> jamesp AT hisser DOT org wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All
>>>
>>> I don't imagine there are many Mac OS X users in the group, but what 
>>> the hell. I
>>> would like to know how well NetBackup supports the HFS+ filesystem.
>>>
>>> I don't know much about HFS+ but I do know that "resource" and 
>>> "data" forks are
>>> used. Does the NBU agent understand what to do with these?
>>>
>>> I'm running 5.0 MP3 on Linux, and Mac OS X 10.3.5. It would be nice 
>>> to know if I
>>> would be able to recover from a total loss with this setup.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> James
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