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There's more than one way to do it
Authored by: Chas on May 16, '02 02:48:37PM

Yes, this is the Unix philosophy, there's always more than one way to do things. There are compressed, more cryptic methods for people with deep Unix knowledge. But the command line is pretty comprehensible even for newbies, they may not do things the simplest or most straightforward way, but they get the job done.
But I do have to warn people about tar, remember it's designed for Unix files, and may not properly compress Mac files with resource forks. Proceed with caution and always test backups by restoring them to a different directory, and see if the restores work.



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There's more than one way to do it
Authored by: gvitale on May 17, '02 04:31:56AM

As for the ability to archive HFS files (with resouce fork and finder info) someone (http://www.geocities.com/paulotex/tar/) has pached GNU tar to work with HFS files. I use it and it works!



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