You can backup a whole volume intact using Apple Software Restore http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20011220103756557 And you can backup using Tar to get all the permissions & resources http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20010626144436220
Somewhere in that lot you can do something useful:))) However you are right about the Tape Drive situation. Until that is resolved (no doubt by Dantz as you say) it is will not be satisfactory for most of my clients. The top link is particularly useful though as it leads to a PDF explaining how you can backup and restore a whole disk if you need to reinstall for whatever reason. You'll need another disk as big as yours though. On 23/12/01 6:06 PM, "Andrew Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 17:57 +0800 23/12/2001, Rob Findlay wrote: >> This is traditional & complicated but free. >> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20010206232018498 > > Lots of debate has taken place about various Unix ways of doing > backups in Mac OS X. There are several issues still: > > - No support for tape drives > - Saving/restoring directory permissions > - Saving/restoring resource forks > > Anything other than Retrospect currently would appear to be a partial > solution (and potentially tremendously clunky too).
