/Installation/OS Specific Notes/Installing Amanda on Mac OS X
Work in Progress --Dustin 13:31, 8 March 2007 (PST)
Amanda has been tested to run on both Mac OS X Panther (10.3) and Tiger (10.4).
With Panther, the built-in tar does not record extended filesystem attributes (resource forks, finder flags, ACLs, and so on), so users who want to be able to restore those attributes will need to do some extra work (see below). Fortunately, Tiger's tar does support extended attributes, so an amanda installation will work "out of the box".
Tiger
Panther
(this section is summarized from writeups by Steven Karel and Locnar)
To support extended attributes on Panther,
- install either [xtar http://www.helios.de/news/news03/N_06_03.phtml] or, if that doesn't work, hfstar
- compile Amanda as for Tiger, with the addition of the --with-gnutar=/path/to/new/tar flag to ./configure, giving the location of the new tar
To run amandad on Panther, you need to install an xinetd configuration snippet; create /etc/xinet.d/amanda with the following contents:
service amanda
{
socket_type = dgram
protocol = udp
wait = yes
user = amanda
server = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
server_args = amandad
groups = yes
disable = no
}
(where server is the path at which you've installed amandad)
If you have trouble, you may want to check that xinetd is running on the machine.