On Tuesday, October 9, 2001, at 02:02 PM, Howard Oakley wrote: > On 8/10/01 22:13, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Howard, please pardon the intrusion; >> >> Conceptually speaking what steps I list below do work (I've used >> them manually without issue.) I want to get them to work >> automatically - using Perl as much as possible. >> >> Question: Is this method usable to make a disaster recovery >> image? I hear reports of mis-matched aliases after a crash >> recovery session using other methods, I would like to avoid >> destroying the MacOS 9 forks, et al, during the backup/recovery >> process. > > In principle, it looks sound. But there are some issues with > trying to do > this for OS X. First, it is a volatile file system, and as such > very hard to > create a comprehensive backup from. Second, when you restore you > do need to > bless the system, even if everything goes back fine - I am looking > at this > at present (one reason for BackXwing not appearing yet). Third, > pax (hence > hfspax) has strange behaviours over owners / groups / permissions, > and you > may well need to invoke the -pe option, which others report as being an > effective solution. Finally, don't forget there's a lot of stuff > in your > root disk that you must not try to archive, like the VM swap file... > > Please let me know how you get on, > Regards, > Howard.
I will; I've become a living test subject as I use my Mac OS X G4 laptop a lot. So backing up it in some manner is very important :) Thx, I appreciate your response(s); -Sx- :-) PS - ATTN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List: Since this is way OT now, this is the end of this thread from my perspective - I will not post again unless I have a working, reproducible solution, whether written in Perl or not. I do appreciate the comments of all who participated and the patience of those who tolerated my rantings with this thread thus far.
