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Incremental backup is really not ...
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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SilverKeeper



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