Re: amanda on Mac OS X

Good to know, Michael, I am still using the xtar trick, didn't even check,
, and amanda works on Intel chipped Mac just fine.

Chen

Hello Karel,
Hello list,

FYI: I'm happily running amanda-2.5.0 on Mac OS X 10.4.6. No compile
problems whatsoever and as a special treat, Apple has updated their UNIX
utilities in 10.4 to properly work with HFS+ and resource forks. So no
hfstar/xtar is needed any more. I've tested this quite a bit and found
it to work nicely, although I haven't tested a full system recovery.

An update to
https://webserver.brandeis.edu/pages/view/Bio/AmandaMacOSXCompileNotes
or http://www.amanda.org/docs/systemnotes.html#id2526824 to reflect this
change might be nice.

Since Apple has retired init and xinetd and replaced them by launchd,
I've written a proper LaunchDaemon-File for it. It's attached to this
mail. I also have small scripts enableamanda and disableamanda to switch
it on and off at runtime using launchctl using a command like:

echo "load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.amanda.amandad.plist" | 
launchctl

and

echo "unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.amanda.amandad.plist" | 
launchctl

Thanks and keep up the great work!



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