site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com - use a third party backup/restore utility (but NOT an image backup!) - man ditto - man asr After choosing one of these, then you can: (1) back up the source partition with a backup tool (2) back up the target partition with a backup tool (3) Compare the archives -- Terry I needed this to be sure what I am doing is right. It is best tested by using a tool already in use. Hello, I use getattrlist() and setattrlist() to backup/restore creation time and finder info can be checked using /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo BSD flags using ls -lo <filename> How do I check if the backup time and text encoding hint have been restored properly? -- Terry _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... Typically, most organizations writing backup/restore software have separate testing and product groups, and the test group writes software which is not derived from the product software, and therefore theoretically provides a cross-check on the product. However, if you don't have a test department and want someone else to write the software for you, you have several options ... For third party tools, there might be a "compare" or "verify" option you could use to compare the archive contents from #1 with the disk contents of #2; this would let you skip the archive compare step #3, and would probably give you better information about what failed, if anything, other than "the binary files A and B differ". On May 14, 2009, at 2:51 AM, rohan a wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Terry Lambert <tlambert@apple.com> wrote: On May 14, 2009, at 2:43 AM, Terry Lambert wrote: On May 12, 2009, at 10:40 PM, rohan a wrote: ATTR_CMN_CRTIME, ATTR_CMN_BKUPTIME, ATTR_CMN_FNDRINFO, ATTR_CMN_FLAGS and ATTR_CMN_SCRIPT. Call getattrlist() on what you just called setattrlist() on, and compare the results. I have to add that this seems to me to be a lot like using rm to remove a file, not getting an error, and then using ls to make sure it's actually gone, even though you didn't get an error on the rum. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com