Basic MAC OS-X Question

[nathan r. hruby]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, James Applebaum wrote:

> I am attempting to backup the laptop (OS-X) operating system and my 
> project files to the server.
> The kick in the pants is that many of the "applets" and project 
> extensions that I use don't follow the (no special characters) rule.
> Now I am investigating the use of tar/zip function from OS-X to make 
> these backups... unfortunately I have not even done back-ups to tape on 
> the server yet... so I don't even know what I don't no about this. If I 
> tar/zip the files will the files be returned intact with their 
> resources? Can a tar file be updated rather then replaced.. can I send 
> the output of a tar function directly to the server?
> 

You can do a lot of crap with tar (create, append, update, remove, list, 
etc.), ssh (to tar to a remote device) and some shell trickery (to 
redirect output from one place to another). 
 
However, tar will strip of the resource forks of your files, not probably 
what you want.  I'm not sure what the original question was but there are 
cli tools that are resource fork aware.  rsyncx, hfstar and ditto are 3 
tools that I would look into, Stuffit too would be a nice GUI thing to 
use.  

One could also use the BOM/Installer utilites to generate a backup 
as installable package but one would considered be a glutton for 
punishment were they to attempt that.

Currently without Retrospect, you cannot access a tape device on OSX, so 
you might be best off writing a script that will collect your data, 
pack it in an HFS aware form and ship it off to your linux server at back 
that particular file.

G'Luck!

-n

> > Hi,
> >
> > On 20.01.2003 21:50 Uhr  James Applebaum wrote:
> >
> >> I am running a 2.4 kernal with appletalk enabled.
> >> When I copy a directory from my OS-X box to the server I  am getting
> >
> > Are copying using the MacOS-X-GUI or the MacOSX-shell?
> >
> > Markus
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> >
> >
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