Actually looks like a shell script,

I had found this before and just now refound it.

apparently updated version!!

http://homepage.mac.com/mattouellette/
seems to take you there or...
http://homepage.mac.com/mattouellette/.cv/mattouellette/Public/tarw_1.0.5.
tgz-binhex.hqx

this does the exact thing of special processing the resource forks.
probably needs to be tested.

On Tuesday, October 9, 2001, at 05:31  AM, Gilmore-Baldwin, John wrote:

> An optimistic thought, indeed. This assumes, of course, that your RAID
> setup never gets hosed, that users never delete a file they need, your
> site never suffers a fire, etc.
>
> We do mirroring, and rotate backups offsite. Not everyone needs to
> exercise that level of paranoia, but we do.
>
> And, it's even possible to have both sides of a mirror fail at once. It
> even happened to me once. (OK, we were using Micropolis drives, so maybe
> we got what we deserved, but still.)
>
> I concur with some people's assessment that Mac OS X should include at
> least some primitive backup solution that writes to tape (at least in
> the server version). Though I am happy they include RAID software, it's
> not necessarily enough for everyone.
>
> All that said, I saw a perl script once that (tarw) on macosxhints.com
> that purports to handle backups. Can't say much else about it (like
> whether is solves any of the problems posed), but at least I get to
> mention perl in this thread.
>
> John Gilmore-Baldwin
>
>> ----------
>> From:        Cranz, Gregory
>> Sent:        Monday, October 8, 2001 2:52 PM
>> To:  Cranz, Gregory; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject:     RE: slightly off topic - looking for backup solution
>>
>> OS 10.1 includes SoftRAID.
>>
>> For disaster recovery, mirror your drives & do hardware redundancy.
>> Aliases
>> will no longer be an issue, and you will not have to restore your
>> data.
>> Just go buy a new drive mechanism when you hose one.
>>
>> - gregor42
>>
>>
>
>
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