Craig White wrote: > 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? > > No, I'm not sure of anything on the Thecus, as I didn't have anything to do with it's setup or population. I was just asked to back it up. Seems like when it comes to doing the important stuff, they always come to the Linux guys. I don't understand, though, how it could have been populated with Mac stuff unless it either had a Mac fs or something or the sorts. A Mac wrote the data, but I'm not sure what type of format the system had. I really don't have a clue about this or how to fix up the NAS if we ever get that far. Sorry to be so dense that I can't answer your questions on the subject. It's all new to me. Thanks, though. Steve > Craig > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > >