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[Veritas-bu] Mac data and NetBackup

2001-04-10 07:32:33
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Mac data and NetBackup
From: gregory.floro AT photobition DOT com (Gregory Floro)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:32:33 -0400
jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com writes:
>Does NetBackup support Mac data backups?  I have a Novell client
>(really? who'd of thought..) that has macintosh data stored on it and
>accessed by mac clients.  We have restored data when using BackupExec
>but are having no luck with NetBackup.
>
>Anyone still have mac data that they are backing up with NetBackup?  And
>can you restore it?

We are currently backing up 2 SGI Origin200's and a Sun E-4500 with
AppleShare volumes
on each of them. We have had no issues with restoring mac file types.
What are you using to create the mac shares??
>
>As I understand it the problem is the resource fork.  The data fork
>seems to still be intact but the resource is either not backed up at all
>or is not being restored properly.  I have tried an entire directory
>restore as well as a single file restore.  There is other data mixed in
>with this and it restored fine in both cases.
>
>Thanks.



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