[OpenAFS] Mac OS 10.5 Leopard's TimeMachine with AFS

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:11:41 -0500


As far as I know Time Machine wants hfs+ semantics, which AFS doesn't
have, so it's not going to work, period.


On Nov 19, 2007 10:53 AM, Moritz Bunse <bunse@physik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently updated my Mac OS to Leopard and installed OpenAFS. I can
> browse my AFS-cell. Now I want to use an AFS-directory as backup directory
> for time machine. I entered
>
> defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes
> 1
>
> in the command line and now /afs is shown in the backup volume selection
> in Time Machine. I can select it, but the problem I think is, that I do
> not have write access to /afs, only to /afs/cellname/user/username. How
> can I mount this directory as a network device?
> There is software at Stanford (
> http://www.stanford.edu/services/openafs/mac/index.html ) , but it is not
> downloadable!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Moritz
>
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