Re: HFS+

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From: Matt McLeod
Subject: Re: HFS+
Date: 12:43 on 13 May 2005
Peter da Silva wrote:
> > I wound up giving in and using tar.  Fortunately only a few things
> > had resource forks so it worked OK.
> 
> Hie thee to http://www.metaobject.com/Products.html then then scroll to
> the bottom or jump to http://www.metaobject.com/downloads/macos-x/ and
> grab hfstar.

For work I'm probably just going to install the TSM client kit and
configure it to back up a subset of my home directory.  Fortunately
we don't keep much on desktops anyway:  my mail is all on the IMAP
server, and anything else I'm working on will be on the machine
behind the curtain (a Solaris box that's properly backed-up).

For home I'm sorry to say that while I have quite a lot of data
most of it isn't backed up for the simple reason that solutions
that handle half a terabyte are either expensive or inconvenient.
But most of it isn't important -- again, the stuff I really care
about is on remote hosts that are properly backed-up.

The using-tar thing was for the Tiger upgrade.  The machine had
two and a half years of cruft on it and I felt it was time for a
clean install, but there are always little random files with useful
notes in them that would be inconvenient to lose.  That's where
TSM will come in in the longer run.

Matt

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