[macosx-unix] amanda backup

[Jan Schaumann]

Jared ''Danger'' Earle <jared at 23x.net> wrote:
> On 5 Mar 2006, at 16:53, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> >tar(8) doesn't preserve resource forks.
> 
> Yes it does.
> 
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/
> 
> HFS+ CLI file commands
> Use command-line commands safely on HFS+ files. Utilities such as cp,  
> mv, tar, rsync now use the same standard APIs as Spotlight and access  
> control lists to handle resource forks properly.

Hey, I stand corrected.  That's good news.  Was that always the case?  I
seem to remember a tar that did not.  Maybe I'm just misremembering
something.

But why didn't they make dump(8) work, then, too?

-Jan

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