Basic MAC OS-X Question

[James Applebaum]

hfspax seems to do everything I need to in a backup tool for OS-X and 
very fast. Obviously the resulting file is linux friendly in a tar 
backup.
http://homepage.mac.com/howardoakley/

Can anyone comment on a resource fork friendly backing solution for  
Mac files located on the YellowDog server that can be run on the server 
itself?

On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 02:01  PM, 
yellowdog-general-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:

> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:50:41 -0500
> Subject: Re: Re: Basic MAC OS-X Question
> From: James Applebaum <japplebaum@rapidtrials.com>
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
> 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
>>>>
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>>>>
> James Applebaum
>
James Applebaum