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But what about backups to non Mac servers
Authored by: ruaric on Aug 10, '05 06:16:45PM

The point of using a tar file is to save the resource fork within it even if you backup to a non MacOS X machine (i.e. even if you backup to Linux or Windows which don't support resource forks they are still saved within the tar).



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But what about backups to non Mac servers
Authored by: peterneillewis on Aug 11, '05 03:54:43AM

I think you will find that rsync under Tiger will backup resources to a non-Mac, it saves the extended data (resources and meta data) to ._ files, probably in exactly the same way that they are stored in the tar file.

It's just a shame that rsync under Tiger is so broken that it cannot backup a decent sized home directory without crashing or locking up (the crash took about five minutes to find in the source code (hint flist_expand), but the lockup I haven't tracked down yet). Perhaps 10.4.3/4/5/6?



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