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Be very careful with AFP!
Authored by: dbs on Nov 07, '07 06:31:42PM

Apple may have added some multi-linked file support HFS+/AFP to get TimeMachine to work. (I don't know if directory hard links work before 10.5, for example.) If this is the case, you'd better be sure that the AFP server you're using supports this or you may get incomplete/invalid backups. One way around this is to use a disk image, but that may be much much much slower. (And at least on Intel 10.4 there's a pretty nasty memory leak with large disk images.)



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Be very careful with AFP!
Authored by: hbp4c on Nov 07, '07 07:27:24PM

Yes, hard linked directories work in 10.4. Not sure about 10.3, I haven't tried anything there.

If you're on 10.4, you can compile the gnu version of coreutils and together with rsync you can build a home-brew version of time machine.



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Be very careful with AFP!
Authored by: Drakino on Nov 08, '07 09:56:42AM

This method forces a disk image to be created, as a sparsebundle. It seems Leopard does this automatically over a network, even when talking to another Leopard machine.



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