[m@]

I have a linux box running SuSE with a spare 40GB disk in it. If I backup my 30GB HD in my powerbook to the 40GB disk via NFS are there problems with data and resource forks. How can these be solved. Does the format of the disk become important?

[utidjian]

Originally posted by m@:
I have a linux box running SuSE with a spare 40GB disk in it. If I backup my 30GB HD in my powerbook to the 40GB disk via NFS are there problems with data and resource forks. How can these be solved. Does the format of the disk become important?

Install netatalk on the Linux box... start the service... mount the network share on the Mac... drag and drop the HD icon from your Mac desktop onto the network share... wait quite a while... yer done.

Netatalk may already be installed on the Linux box. If not check your distribution CDs or go to: http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/

-DU-...etc...

[m@]

netatalk is limited to 31 byte/char filenames, so every thing transfers nicely except such files.

Another option would to be to create a disk image on the remote machine and mount the image on the locat machine (via AFS, NFS or even SMB), thus curcomventing the resource fork problem, and file name restrictions (i hope). However I think backing up a whole disk as one large file sort of defeats the object of keeping the data in recoverable form.