[ale] Minor challenges seeking answers

Thompson Freeman tfreeman at tfreeman.vnet.net
Wed Aug 4 00:38:41 EDT 1999


If the name of the linux client for netatalk gets back to you, would you
forward same to me please? We are talking iMac here, so a scsi sub-system
isn't quite easily done.

I'm getting concerned that this is going to become a "roll your own"
project in the long run.

Thanks for the response.

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Jim Kinney wrote:

> It is possible, but not easy, to setup netatalk and it's linux client
> (name escapes me) to mount the shared apple volumns to the linux box. Once
> mounted, back them up. A warning, it will be _SLOW_. We back up some Macs
> to a Novell server and they are the bottleneck in the process of backing
> up macs, NT, Irix, Linux machines. 
> 
> Ah, to yearn for the day when all is good and Linux...
> 
> Of course, it may be easier to just get an external scsi tape drive...
> 
> James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
> Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
> Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu
> 
> 

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