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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