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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Mac resource fork question
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Ben Escoto |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Mac resource fork question |
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Thu, 6 Nov 2003 00:42:22 -0800 |
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:11:10 -0600
John Goerzen <address@hidden> wrote:
> I observe from the CHANGELOG and mailing list questions that rdiff-backup
> 0.13.0 added support for resource forks on Macs.
>
> I have two questions regarding this:
>
> 1. Does it work if the machine being backed up is a Mac, but the files
> are being stored on a Linux system? Does it somehow compensate for
> the fact that the Linux system does not support resource forks?
> Is there a method to restore from such a backup reliably?
The resource fork information is dumped into the metadata file. This
isn't a particularly efficient way of storing it, but the assumption
was that most files wouldn't have resource forks.
So, yes, you can back up a Mac to Linux. Does it work reliably?
Dunno, I don't have a mac for testing, but Daniel Hazelbaker added
most of the resource fork code to 0.13.0, and it at least worked at
that point.
> 2. Does it also store the Mac creator and type information? This
> is not properly part of the resource fork, I believe. Same restoration
> question as above applies here.
No, just resource forks. I didn't even know there were other pieces
of Mac metadata.
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Ben Escoto
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