Re: Netatalk data backup with CD-R


Subject: Re: Netatalk data backup with CD-R
From: Carsten Neumann (deltor@snafu.de)
Date: Wed Apr 18 2001 - 08:59:17 EDT


On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Nathaniel Pendleton wrote:
> Is there a recommended way to backup my MacOS files
> on my Linux netatalk server?
>
> I have SCSI CD-R and a SCSI PCI card to setup on Linux.
>
> What file format on the CD-R should / can I use?
> HFS? can I make an HFS CD-R from linux? to reliably open on MacOS.
> ext2? can I record all the .AppleDouble and permissions onto an ext2 CD-R?
> But be forced to linux to recover.
> ISO9660? can I use the very portable ISO9660 and .AppleDouble?
> But then how can I reliably reconstitute type/creator and
> resource fork
> on a MacOS file stored on ISO9660?
>
> OR should I move everything across the network to a MacOS machine with CD-R?
> That would be really annoying.
>
> -Nathaniel

Look at the mkhybrid(8) man page, there is a --netatalk option.
Mkhybrid creates an ISO9660 file system image with HFS extension.
You can write this image via e.g. cdrecord(1) onto your cd-r.
This will be exactly what you want.

HTH, regards

        Carsten



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