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2001.06.29 Updated in response to feedbacks(Thank you, Gary L. 2002.03.05 Rewritten with stylesheet Validated with W3C HTML Validator Binary distribution of MacOSX::File introduced 2002.01.19 Rewritten in great deal to introduce psync 2001.07.03 More typos fixed (thank you, Struan Robertson, et al.). "Alternative" section completely revised. History of this Document 2002.10.20 psyncnow has its own page. As of this writing it's avaliable via CVS butthis is definitely the solution people like myself wanted (I might nothave developed psync if that were available).

dd command should work if thetarget volume is EXACTLYthe same size as source volume.

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Mac disk isdefinitely not a place to backup entire boot volume but should beenough to backup your home directory.

Apple itself has released a utility called backup,which works with your.

Make sure the volumesyou are copying between are both formatted in the extended HFS+format. Synk cannot synchronize between HFS+ and foreign file systemsbecause the directories are sorted differently. This will notaffect most Macintosh users. Theyare converted by the network client into normal files. Synk cannot copy symbolic links over an Appleshare network. It was designed tocopy your home directory or any other folder to another location, notcreate a bootable backup. Synk will not mirror one hard drive to another. However, thehelp file clearly states as follow

If you are looking for a free, GUI-based solution, try Synk 4.

As mentioned above, DanzRetrospect is now available.

Ditto-based solution is also discussedin thisarticle by Mike Bombich

Josh Wood reported that a command /usr/bin/ditto may be used.This solution is discussed thoroughly in MacOS X:/usr/bin/ditto and backup.

He also mentioned, however,that ASR is not available online so you need to have a fairly recentMacs.

Allan Marcus told me in response to this page that Apple SoftwareRestore 2.1.1 (ASR) or later can be used.

AlternativesĪs Larry Wall says, there are more than one way to do it. Q: Is there any way to incrementally back up MacOS X volumes? A: psync discussed above does just that! Q: This is still too complicated to me! Easier solution, please! A:See "Alternatives" below. While CpMac copies resource fork and other attributes,it resets file ownerships and modification dates. Then why does the copy viaClassic Finder works? A: Because Classic Finder copies all HFS+ attributes, includingsuch attributes as file permissions and ownershipsthat are not used byMacOS 9.x Q: Can't you use CpMac utility for that purpose, say "cd / CpMac -r Applications Library. We need Classic Finder to forciblly ignorepermissons. You will find you can't copy files due toinsufficient permission. FAQ Q: Why can't you use Aqua Finder to backup? A: Give it a try. This section is now in a separatedocument. In hope to remedy this situation, I have written psync, a perl script that comes with MacOSX::File.ĭue to its popularity it now has its own page.

So what you get is a volume stripped with all resourceforks and finder attributes. MacOS X appears to be dependent on HFS(+) fileattributes which are rendered inaccessible from those conventionalunix commands. MacOS X is too moisturized to apply straightunix methods. Then how about good old Unix method? dump/restore? tar? dd? rsync?To a good old unix user, the command below appears to work cd / tar -Xcf. To make matters further complicated, MacOS XFinder ("Aqua Finder" as follows) hides these critical folders,disabling attempts to restore volume within Aqua Finder. Unlike MacOS 9 where the only folder requiredto boot a volume is "System Folder" which path can be anywhere in thevolume, MacOS X requires such folders as /etc and /usr directly underthe startup volume. As hyped very loudlyMacOS X is a "moisturized" BSD Unix which requires proper fileslocated at proper path. That is no longer the truth with MacOS X. When you restore thevolume,just select the destination drive via "Startup Disk".

All you have to do is grab a media large enough and drag thetarget hard drive icon to destination drive.

#HOW TO BACKUP ALFRED MAC OS X FULL#

Until MacOS 9.x, MacOS is the easiest platform to do full volumebackup.

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usr/bin/rsync that comes with Mac OS X v10.4 (Tiger) now supports resource fork operation with -E option.You should consider this an alternative to psync. MacOS X: Backup and Restore Entire Volume MacOS X: Backup and Restore Entire TIGER USERS