Portable backups?

[Peter Bagnall]

Is a network backup an option?

You could create a share on a Linux box using atalk, which preserves 
the resource fork in the unix file system (I'm pretty sure it does 
anyhow). Then you can just back up that linux file space. Clearly you 
can also backup the linux filespace at the same time. Only downside is 
you need another machine.

Or you might be able to achieve something similar using MOL and having 
the atalk filespace on the backup media, say an external HD.

Might work!

Pete

On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 06:25 PM, Romain Kang wrote:

> Does anyone have a recommended solution (or one that works, period) for
> generating backups that work between Linux and OS X?  One of my friends
> is banging his head against this conundrum at the moment:
>
> 	I can't use the finder/hdiutil because it doesn't preserve
> 	permissions, doesn't work on UNIX system directories, and
> 	yields a CD-R that cannot be read by anything but another
> 	Mac. I can't use tar because it doesn't preserve the resource
> 	fork. I can't use mkisofs because it does not preserve
> 	permissions, truncates names at 32 characters, and seems
> 	to have bugs that prevent it's CD-R's from being read
> 	correctly. And dump doesn't work on HFS+ at all.
>
> Romain
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