[wplug] Backing up Mac OS X to Linux

Moshe Katz-Hyman moshe at temple.edu
Sat Apr 2 21:46:14 EST 2005


There is also a tool called hfstar that will write standard .tar files 
with the extra fork stored as an extra file in the .tar archive.  You 
can then restore the files back to your powerbook with hfstar if need 
be.

Moshe
On Apr 2, 2005, at 9:15 PM, John Harrold wrote:

> I have a powerbook that I'm using as my primary computer. I have a file
> server running Debian/Sarge at home that I'd like to use to backup
> different files on my laptop. Ordinarily, I'd just use rsync over ssh, 
> or
> unison if i change files on both computer simultaneously. However, the
> native file system on macs (HFS+ I believe) has something called 
> resource
> forks. As I understand it, Because of these resource forks, things like
> rsync don't work correclty. Since I normally use the wireless network 
> and
> I'd like to back things up nightly, I'd like to use something like 
> rsync to
> just transfer the files that have changed. Does anyone have any 
> suggestions
> for backing up OS X to a Linux machine preferably over ssh.
>
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