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Authored by: sizzla on Apr 21, '04 03:58:37PM

Can SilverKeeper backup to non Mac (i.e. FAT,NTFS) partitions over SAMBA?



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Authored by: rhowell on Apr 21, '04 04:21:07PM

It can back up to any volume that mounts to the desktop or can be found in the Network Finder window.



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Authored by: leenoble_uk on Apr 22, '04 11:13:35AM

This may have been fixed by the OS recently but when I used to use SilverKeeper backing up to an NTFS volume over the network it would always hang when it found a file with [square brackets] in the name or s/ashes and I think que?tion marks too.

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Authored by: silverkeeper on Apr 22, '04 07:17:57PM

There are many limitations when backing up to shared volumes. Mainly due to problems dealing with:
- different character sets supported
- Mac OS files with resource and data forks
- OS X writes two files for every one file on the Mac, so potential for many hidden files that are important

If you are backing up data files only with no resource forks, and the filenames are simple, then yes it works.

There is no real easy way to do this right.



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Authored by: fprefect on Apr 25, '04 12:19:14AM

A frequent solution to storing HFS+ metadata on non-HFS volumes is to create a sparse .dmg on that volume, then mount it from the Finder.



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