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Re: How to backup an HFS+ filesystem ?

> dump on most Unices bypasses the filesystem code in the kernel
> and reads the
> raw device directly, and Darwin does not appear to differ.
> Without looking at
> the source, I believe Darwin dump only understands UFS...
>
> # dump -0f /dev/null /dev/rdisk0s9
> DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sun Sep 22 12:36:01 2002
> DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
> DUMP: Dumping /dev/rdisk0s9 to /dev/null
> DUMP: bad sblock magic number
> DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.

I guess I should have tryed that myself

>> Otherwise do you know guys a good tool to backup HFS+ (beside
>> Retrospec of
>> course).
>
> I'm quite partial to TSM from my work perspective, but I have a
> feeling that
> that may be a little out of your reach (and the Mac OS X
> implementation has
> some limitations).

Well for sure I've not a Tivoli server near me :)

> Try hfspax, written by Howard Oakley
> <http://homepage.mac.com/howardoakley/>.
> It backs up both forks, and the finfo structures. BTW, it does
> use Carbon
> routines, so won't work on native Darwin, you need Mac OS X.

Great it does the trick Thanks !

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