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On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 08:09:53AM -0700, Chris Nandor wrote: > And speaking of hating software, let me count the ways I hate all > backup software ... (that said, I have at least one, usually two, and > in critical cases 3-4 backups of all my data these days :-). I've tried unsuccessfully now TWICE to do a backup to a remote (NFS mounted) filesystem and have had disk utility completely lock up on me. of course I can't use dump(8) since the previous owner of this laptop formatted with HFS. (does dump even work under OSX with UFS?) I could use the oft-suggested carbon copy pro, but it doesn't want to write to a network path, and, I really don't want to buy a USB or firewire device enclosure. (and the ibook doesn't have SCSI on it.) that's what I have a network for, dammit. so I plod back to the command line to see what I can find that I can run in verbose mode and either figure out why the thing is locking up or maybe it'll finally work. asr? it can restore from images, but it doesn't appear to be able to generate them. so I hit http://www.macos.utah.edu/Documentation/ASROSX/commandline.html#restore which gives me a bunch of steps for creating a blank image, mounting it, and using ditto to copy files around. remember, I just want to make a block backup of the drive to a file here, in some format that can be restored without much trouble to a different device later (IE _not_ dd). something like dump. so I poke through the steps and I'm scratching my head wondering what the fuck is going on until I discover that hdiutil claims to do what I want: generate an image file from a source device. it's written roughly 6GB now and seems to be plodding along steadily at about 4MB/s. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. if it works I'll have a little less reason to hate apple. but just a little. there's not even a goddamn pager (more or less) on the tiger install DVD. but there's a perl interpreter. apple can't give me a fucking pager in /usr/bin, but they can give me /usr/bin/perl? (and finger? and openssl?) still hateful. -- Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@xxxxxxxxx.xxxThere's stuff above here
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