Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backing up OS X machine to Linux machine

[Scott Lamb]

On Apr 14, 2006, at 6:15 AM, Sterling Anderson wrote:
> I want to back up several OS X machines to a Linux host but am  
> concerned some of the HFS+ file system resource fork info will not  
> get saved correctly. The Linux host filesystem is ext3 and below is  
> the some of the output when I start the rdiff-backup process. As  
> you can see the filesystem does not support "Mac OS X style  
> resource forks". Is this going to be a problem, or is that  
> information still save somehow so when I restore the files will be  
> fine?

It saves it. But do a test restore if you don't trust it (or even if  
you do; it's just a good idea). You should be able to see the forks  
show up when you restore to an OS X machine.

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Scott Lamb <http://www.slamb.org/>