Portable backups?

[nathan r. hruby]

> 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

hfstar, ditto, bom (and friends), and rsyncX will do what you need.  
See the archives of this list.. as there was a thread about this a 
little while ago (January/early Feb?)

-n

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