Well, on the whole, I'm happier with this client than I have been in a long time. There is unicode support, so make sure that you have 'autofsrename yes' in the client files or just update the node on the server.
A couple of oddities, though.
1) There isn't an exclude.dir for the OS X System folder, but it doesn't show up in the backup directory window. When you go to the exclude-include tab in the preferences window, it's there! No duplicate version of the 'dsm.sys' (shorter than typing out the entire Mac name) file exists. If you save the new file from this window, the exclude.dir for the system folder now appears!
2) Some strange behavior when upgrading from 5.1 with regard to passwordaccess generate (just taking the default). The first time I signed on, a new v5.1 folder was created (I had trashed the old 5.1 folder) and the encrypted password was placed in it. After I threw that one away, I was prompted again for it and it created a new encrypted entry in the correct, v5.2 folder.
The second one was more of a nuisance and I'm trying to recreate it to see if it's going to affect a rollout. The first one concerns me - or should it? Is the OS X system folder 'restorable'? If I have to do a 'bare metal restore' (or as close as I can get to that), will I need to worry about the System folder. The System 9 folder was backed up on dual boot machines.
Gretchen Thiele Princeton University
