Finally, some backup software that handles resource forks

[rharder]

Though command-line only, there's a tool called hfspax on www.versiontracker.com that will back up resource forks and and Finder information.

It's basically a modified pax, which I'd never used before, but you use it like tar/gnutar/cpio/whatever to backup directories and files to a single file. That single file can then be incrementally updated/restored.

Kudos to Howard Oakley for this long-overdue-and-should've-been-built-in-to-OS-X-anyway tool.

http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=11144&db=mac

-Rob

 

[endian]

does it work now? earlier versions apparently were dangerously buggy, as in failing silently with data loss & changing file names. be careful

 

[rharder]

Yes, apparently those have been addressed. At least mostly! =)

-Rob

 

[strobe]

I prefer using Synk in MacOS. You can make a bootable backup of OS X so when shit happens I can just boot off the backup.

(due to a bug in OS X Carbon, Synk in OS X won't preserve owner/group, but Synk in MacOS will)