[cshuman]

I have a headless Win2k machine that I have at my neighbors house. I have set up a local lan and we share a DSL connection. I do nightly backups of my user folders, system library and applications. The problem I am having is with the Applications. When I try to bring them back to mac they show up as iTunes.app folders, not packages. This has caused me concern as I am not quite sure what would happen if I ever actually needed to grab my files.

What other problems could I have in trying to restore files to my Mac that have been sitting on an NTFS drive. I have thousands of pictures that could never be replaced should anything happen to them. I condiser this to be very critical. Is there another filesystem I can use on the Win2k's second and third backup drives that would be safer for backing up a mac?

As a LAST resort I can go to RedHat, but dread Linux. I consider myself an advanced "user", but just don't get many things in Linux.

What should I do?

Chris

[blizzard]

Is there any way you can compress the files before they're backed up to the server?

[chabig]

Try this...

Use Disk Copy to create a disk image on the server. Then just open that image when you want to store or retrieve files. Drag and drop to and from the image should work just fine.

I also suppose that if you simply log our and back in, the Finder might recognize your .apps as application packages.

Chris