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Multi-DVD or (multi-CD) spanning backups with tar
Authored by: stcanard on Jun 24, '05 03:52:22PM
Be careful using hfstar for this!

I was using hfstar to do backups because I wanted to preserve the resource forks. When I actually had a disk failure, I discovered that hfstar was unable to untar my larger (7GB) backup files!

Fortunately the regular Panther tar was able to open them, but I lost any of the resource forks anyway.

So if you're going to use this system, make sure you test untarring real files as well. You don't want to end up with backups you can't use!

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Multi-DVD or (multi-CD) spanning backups with tar
Authored by: ruaric on Jul 12, '05 06:27:18AM

Interesting, on the backups I have done with xtar I have not encountered problems (and I have backed up far more than 7GB). Based on your experience and what I have read elsewhere I think that xtar is probably a safer option than hfstar.



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