Chris Searle

Listening to the digital story this morning prompted me to think about my Aperture setup.

Aperture has its "vault" functionality - but this only works to the local hard drive or to USB/firewire drives directly attached to the box.

I have a RAID5 based NAS (network attached storage) device which I would  far prefer to have my backups on - since I've had USB disks die on me before.

How to get the vault onto the network device?

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I needed to get both my Mac machines (mac mini intel and macbook pro) to be included in the amanda backup I run.

I could have tried going via samba - but the following page works exactly as advertised:

http://www.locnar.net/drupal/?q=node/16

Notes - I used the latest stable build as of today: 2.5.1p2. One oddity in configure (a call to head with unknown params) - but it all worked. I also had to use the username backup in the .amandahosts file since that is the user the tape server uses - this is only the .amandahosts file - the rest is using the amanda user as per the article.

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