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.
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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
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