Basic MAC OS-X Question

[James Applebaum]

I have looked at the cli tools that you suggested... I don't see how 
any of these are going to work.
None appear to compress or package the data files into a single linux 
friendly file format that I can move to the server.

Additional Question: Am I going to be able to backup my server (tape 
device) and retain the integrity of the files for my MacOS users? Your 
comment below would indicate that tar is going to strip the resource 
fork from the data? Haven't done any tests on this as I assumed this 
was a no brainer.

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 02:01  PM, 
yellowdog-general-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:

> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:48:03 -0500 (EST)
> From: "nathan r. hruby" <nathan@drama.uga.edu>
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: Re: Basic MAC OS-X Question
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
> 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
>>>
>>> -- =20
>>> |MARKUS DEISTLER                        msdeistler@freenet.de |
>>> |KRIEMHILDSTR. 18, 90461 N=DCRNBERG,     MOBIL -> 0162/6906779  |
>>> |                                        TEL -> 0911/4099232  |
>>>
>>>
James Applebaum