[geeks] Postscript question

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Dave Kimmel wrote:

> I've heard that one of the problems with the multiple forks is that
> backing up "Mac files" (as opposed to plain old files that don't have
> any extra stuff attached) using tar doesn't work quite right.  Is this
> still the case or has it been addressed somehow?

The "ditto" program does a deep-copy of a directory in a way that
preserves the resource fork of "file.txt" in another file called
"._file.txt".  You can tar the results of a ditto for archival.  This is
how I backed up my home directory over NFS this morning.

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Jonathan Patschke
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