Howard, please pardon the intrusion; Conceptually speaking what steps I list below do work (I've used them manually without issue.) I want to get them to work automatically - using Perl as much as possible.
Question: Is this method usable to make a disaster recovery image? I hear reports of mis-matched aliases after a crash recovery session using other methods, I would like to avoid destroying the MacOS 9 forks, et al, during the backup/recovery process. Any thoughts would be appreciated :) TIA; -Sx- # I am on a G4 laptop, so make sure we have mounting points... hdiutil eject disk1 hdiutil eject disk2 # Make a place to backup to... hdiutil create -megabytes 100 backupImage.dmg hdid -nomount backupImage.dmg sudo newfs_hfs -v myBackupDir /dev/disk1 hdiutil eject disk1 hdid backupImage.dmg # Original poster used - ditto -rsrcFork myFolder /Volumes/myFolderImage # I will use hfspax -r -w -v -Y -Z home /backup or some such ... hfspax -r -w -v -Y -Z $HOME /Volumes/myBackupDir # optionally I would like to backup to a firewire drive or other mount point...
