>>>>> "Elaine" == Elaine -HFB- Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Elaine> Randal L. Schwartz [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: Elaine> *> Elaine> *>Unless tar's been modified, it won't know about resource forks, and Elaine> *>it doesn't do incremental copies in any case. From what I could Elaine> *>gather over the weekend, the only command-line tool that knows about Elaine> *>resource forks is "CpMac" in the /Development/Tools/ bin. Elaine> Well, there is cpio Not resource fork aware, unless it's been modified. Elaine> , the beta of Retrospect for OS X at many hundreds of dollars Elaine> and Iomega has Elaine> something called 'QuickSync' though I've never tried it. Hadn't seen that, but it appears to be a subset of Retrospect's (smart) Duplicate function, which I'm already using. Elaine> And there is dump Elaine> as well but I don't know if it gets the classic stuff or not. Again, not much hope of any normal unix utility knowing to add "/rsrc" to every single file and looking at that during the copy. Maybe I can just hack rsync to do it. Elaine> *>stuffit also doesn't do incremental copies. Elaine> It's no more a backup utility than tar is but it works in a pinch. But aliases pulled from a stuffit are just as broken as aliases pulled across by Retrospect duplicate. Aliases - what was Apple thinking! :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
