On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 15:49 -0500, Steve Campbell wrote: > I ran into a problem that I couldn't resolve straight away, but would > like to solve for sometime in the future. > > We have a Thecus storage server (similar to a Buffalo TeraByte, if that > helps?) that has a Mac filesystem on it. The mother board was failing, > but the drives are still OK. A new box has been added, so the urgency is > sort of gone. I was going to try and back up the data to a new CentOS > 5.1 box I had until the new Thecus arrived, but ran into the problem of > Mac resource forks not being copied when I mounted the Thecus as a CIFS > system. > > Is there a commonly used procedure to do the above task of copying a Mac > (HFS, I think) system to a linux box from the linux box? > > This sort of runs into another project we have in the works where we > want to make the equivalent of a SAN/NAS type storage system. We want to > have a cluster of Centos boxes running for shared storage, and have the > ability to add to it seamlessly. But now, I'm wondering if it won't run > into the same problem with the HFS or other filesystems that may be > used. I understand NAS storage sort of handles the different filesystem > protocols by interface, so I wondering if anyone has a pointer to > something like this also. > > Google keeps pointing me in a circle back to an old HFS+ driver that > sort of stopped development in 2003. The trail ends very abruptly. > > Sorry to be so windy, but offer thanks in advance for any clues. ---- If you want to be certain that you preserve the Macintosh resource forks, you might want to add Netatalk (http://netatalk.sourceforge.net), which makes it a real AFPoverTCP file server. Then you use a Macintosh to copy the files over. Otherwise, I would suggest that you use tar to copy the folders over which should preserve all of the contents. Are you sure that those are really HFS (or HFSPlus) filesystems? Craig