On Feb 10, 2004, at 8:39 PM, Brian wrote:
I have about 18 gig of stuff on my powerbook 1400; and a 120 gig HD in my B/W G4.
I would like to back up my powerbook files to the G4; I'll just use filesharing over TCP/IP unless there's less overhead/faster transfer rates if I turn on a ftpd on the G4. I'm going on a trip w/ the powerbook and wish to keep all my digital photos and MP3s safe (not counting the time I have getting the 1400 set up "my way" :).
I'm a little worried about losing my type/creator resource fork stuff though; will it be OK or should I boot the G4 into OS 9.2 (not just run Classic) and copy the files over onto the traditional MacOS?
Don't bother. OSX has preserved them from the beginning. In the beginning, Rhapsody was going to do away with them, but the generalized developer revolt over Rhapsody convinced Apple to continue supporting the resource fork metadata stuff.
Oh except I think the only ethernet cards I have with drivers for the powerbook, are 10bT :) so maybe that's the limiting factor.
Yeah, that'd probably be it. I don't think you'll have much overhead difference between ftp and appleshare on this setup. Just start the transfer and go off and have dinner or something.
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