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Re: amanda server on Mac OS X ?

2007-07-17 19:32:10
Subject: Re: amanda server on Mac OS X ?
From: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
To: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <sgw AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:27:43 -0500
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:27:48AM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Any experience with amanda-server on OS X?
> Any infos regarding this newer than the mentioned link above?

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Installation/OS_Specific_Notes/Installing_Amanda_on_Mac_OS_X

I use Macs at home, so I did some work on this a while back.  Everything
that I understand is summarized on that page.

To answer your specific question, you can run an Amanda server on a Mac,
with the caveat that Mac OS X itself doesn't support any tape drives.

Clients work great.

Dustin

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        Dustin J. Mitchell
        Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc.
        http://www.zmanda.com/

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