From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 02:48:56 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BD3F16A40F for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 02:48:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from walt@wump.org) Received: from mtai01.charter.net (mtai01.charter.net [209.225.8.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A753713C44B for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 02:48:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from walt@wump.org) Received: from aa04.charter.net ([10.20.200.156]) by mtai03.charter.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20070104023138.VIJU1328.mtai03.charter.net@aa04.charter.net>; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 21:31:38 -0500 Received: from [10.0.0.10] (really [68.116.98.9]) by aa04.charter.net with ESMTP id <20070104023137.IQNJ20794.aa04.charter.net@[10.0.0.10]>; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 21:31:37 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: wump@sorcom.com@mail.mcsi.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <481463.77550.qm@web50308.mail.yahoo.com> References: <481463.77550.qm@web50308.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 18:32:23 -0800 To: X X , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org From: Walt Pawley Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Chzlrs: 0 Cc: Subject: Re: will it work? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:48:56 -0000 At 10:16 AM -0800 1/3/07, X X wrote: >... It needs to work with both windows and macs on >the network. It has to have the ability to run >automated backups to either internal hd (like raid >mirroring) or usb external hd. If you're planning to do backups of the client computers' hard disks, you may have comparative difficulty with getting proper backups of the Mac data because the of the wide range of extended attributes involved in the HFS+ file system they'll most likely be using. -- Walter M. Pawley Wump Research & Company 676 River Bend Road, Roseburg, OR 97470 541-672-8975