On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, John Martinez wrote:

> 
> Does Amanda support OS X clients? I plan on installing Amanda on a Solaris 
> server.
> 
> In particular, I'd like to know if there is support for multi-forked files in 
> HFS+ filesystems.

You need to use a local backup utility that's resource fork aware.  
There's a program 'hfstar' that is a port of GNU tar that's aware of
resource forks. I've used it with amanda and it's superficially ok,
although I get some error messages from hfstar while running AMANDA dumps
that I have not delved to the bottom of yet. I put my working notes at:

http://web.brandeis.edu/pages/view/Bio/AmandaMacOSXCompileNotes

I will try to update them later this weekend after poking around the log 
files to dig out the errors I've been getting.