On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 16:38 -0500, Steve Campbell wrote: > > 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. ---- I doubt it had HFS/HFSPlus filesystem but rather used something like Netatalk for Apple clients. Easy way to find out...sit in front of a Mac and see if you can connect to it by... Go (menu) => Connect to Server => afp://ip_address_of_server and if it offers login, it's a Macintosh file server Again, I would use a Macintosh to move the files if retaining the resource forks is important. That's the only way to ensure that they are moved and work. Note that if a Mac copies the files to a Samba (CIFS) server, the resource forks will be discarded. I don't know what will happen if NFS. Craig