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Some tips for migrating data from NFS to AFP
Authored by: mayo2ca on Jul 22, '05 02:50:45PM

I don't think zip will preserve file ownership, so all the files get the ownership of the person who extracted them. One way to preserve the permissions is to use tar with -sp flags. Then zip the tar if you need compression. (-j will bzip and -z wil gzip the output file automatically). When you extract the tar, OSX should merge the special files as well.

In unix, if the system can't resolve UIDs (such as when the directory is down or user has been deleted) it will show the numeric IDs. I'm not sure about 10.4, but 10.3 behaved this way too, and I don't see any reason why Apple would screw with this.

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Some tips for migrating data from NFS to AFP
Authored by: alblue on Jul 23, '05 02:54:59PM

I tried the tar approach; it just faithfully restored the ._ files as well, as opposed to merging them into the metadata.



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