From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 19:35:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 625E016A4CE for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:35:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BCD643D45 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:35:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin02-en2 [10.13.10.147]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id i7JJZ32G023929; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:35:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.1.245] (nfw2.codefab.com [199.103.21.225] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0)i7JJYVK5022262; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:34:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <65dca55f1aa205c9a2af8da.20040819095341.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> References: <65dca55f1aa205c9a2af8da.20040819095341.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:34:30 -0400 To: jmlewis@dslextreme.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Scheduled system backups program X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:35:04 -0000 On Aug 19, 2004, at 12:53 PM, Joshua Lewis wrote: > They do not have any tape drives only hard drives and to top it all off > they only have Macs. They are using a dedicated Mac running OS 9.2 > acting > as a server. Tape drives make really good backup devices; backing up to another hard drive is not nearly as reliable, although it's good enough to work for many people. > I was hoping I could upgrade that system to OS X and I was wondering if > there are any FreeBSD utilities that would work for backing up. > Otherwise > I will be setting up a freebsd backup server and I would like to save > the > customer the money and not have to go that route. OS X comes with the classic Unix backup tools like tar, cpio, pax, and dump, as well as rsync. These deal fine with "normal" files, but fail to handle the resource fork used by some classic Mac apps, so be careful. That caution also applies to performing backups to a FreeBSD or other machine as a remote backup server. If you do need to back up "forked" files from HFS, many longtime Mac users seem to swear by a product called Retrospect. > I am sorry for the many OS X questions I have been posting here over > the > last few days but the Darwin mailing list did not respond. Does anyone > know of a good OS X mailing list I can join? There are mailing lists at apple.com, of course, as well as Omni's: http://www.omnigroup.com/developer/mailinglists/ -- -Chuck