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Preserve resource forks during backups via tar and ftp
Authored by: codeman38 on Aug 10, '05 07:33:20PM

Careful on this one if you're running Fink; by default, Fink *prepends* rather than appends itself to the system path, thus making its version of tar take precedence over the one built into OS X. This can be changed in several ways; I've edited /sw/bin/init.sh to change the 'prepend' statements to 'append's.



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Which Tar
Authored by: jasont on Aug 10, '05 09:48:09PM

Thanks for that, could you post what you changed to use the default tools. For most people calling tar w/ /usr/bin/tar would be the workaround right?



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Preserve resource forks during backups via tar and ftp
Authored by: loren_ryter on Aug 11, '05 10:33:37AM

why does it matter which tar?

i'm also getting /sw/bin/tar since i've got fink installed.



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Preserve resource forks during backups via tar and ftp
Authored by: ruaric on Aug 12, '05 03:46:19AM

Because the tar included with fink does not save or restore resource forks.



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