On 23/12/01 6:17 PM, "Rob Findlay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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.
> 

That ASR backup method works (I've used it) but the volume can't be any
bigger than 4 GB. Mine, unfortunately has just gone over that figure.