James, I highly recommend using xtar for OSX clients as any other method will not backup and restore the resource forks correctly. I have been using xtar for 3+ years on 1500+ OSX clients to linux servers with no problems.
cheers, ski On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:29:50 -0500 James Peverill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My backuppc is working great but I am having trouble getting my OSx > clients to work properly. We are using SMB to back them up (which > maybe is a mistake... advice here appreciated). We are just using a > custom config per machine with the users login info. The machines > are running tiger so the files are shared at //machinename/username > with the username and password being the user's machine login. I can > get to the files with smbclient using the information that I have in > the machine specific .pl file... but backuppc always reports "no > files dumped". Any ideas? Is there a verbose mode I could put it in > to give me more information about what is going on? > > Any ideas would be appreciated! Thanks! > > James > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it connected to the entire universe" John Muir Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 206-501-9803 or ski98033 on most IM services and gizmo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
