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Multi-DVD or (multi-CD) spanning backups with tar
Authored by: dav on Jun 23, '05 01:40:46PM

I learned that panther's tar did not have resource forks the hard way :-(

So if I use just plain old tar to backup on tiger than I should be good to go?



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Multi-DVD or (multi-CD) spanning backups with tar
Authored by: Gigacorpse on Jun 23, '05 02:54:09PM

As someone who dislikes resource forks, I would say that is a feature, not a bug. ;)



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Multi-DVD or (multi-CD) spanning backups with tar
Authored by: ruaric on Jul 12, '05 06:22:52AM

Yes, as others in the thread have confirmed Tiger's tar does support resource forks.



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You might need to use xtar on Tiger as well
Authored by: ruaric on Aug 20, '06 07:07:35AM

It would seem that the version of tar supplied with Tiger may not support long filenames (over 100 characters) since it is now based on BSD tar rather than GNU tar. I would therefore use xtar. Whatever you do though, make sure you test.



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