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Our policy has always been that if it isn’t on the server (group shares), tough luck. Turning on PHD just gives me the added benefit of maybe making someone happier when their drive dies or they have some other hardware failure.

I generally don’t back up the PHD’s on the server. They live on a RAID 5 partition. It just doesn’t seem to make sense to backup up an additional 20-30 gigs (depending on the user, some don’t have anything and work totally off the server) for work that generally is not production.

So I guess to answer your question, I wouldn’t trust it as a true backup mechanism, but it is a great way to add value to your users’ environment.

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I use Veritas NetBackup, it just ties into all the existing architecture we have. The only caveat is that you have to back it up from a mounted volume, so one of my MDCs has the volume mounted pretty much all the time simply for backup (thought I can’t really imagine how you would back up the volume without it being mounted).

I also use BRU on another box at a remote location and I’ve been very happy with it so far. The latest release made huge improvements. You can check it out at http://www.tolisgroup.com if you’ve never heard of it.

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[QUOTE BY= MacTroll] 1) This is because you have not integrated the AFP server on the OSXS into the AD kerberos realm. Once you do this the authentication will be done over kerberos, but right now your users are getting a TGT from AD which is useless against the OSXS.
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I’m assuming I do this by using /System/Library/CoreServices/Kerberos.app on the OSXS. I got new tickets on the server and everything but the client still asks for authentication upon login to get to the group share. Maybe I’m doing it wrong?

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2) You can try using a symlink, not an alias so you’ll need to do this from the CLI, from the network home “music” folder to a local path, like /Library/LocalMusic/
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Symlink seemed to work okay so far on my testing across two machines. The odd side affect is that the iTunes library file is local too, so you get whoever’s music library that machine belongs to no matter who you log in as. I’m expanding people’s aural horizons and I’m not even trying.

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3) Tiger
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Doh!

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