Doug, Both SuperDuper and ChronoSync that I mentioned place the files onto the destination disk in their original format. They can optionally also copy files into virtual volumes (the Mac OS X "disk image" or .DMG files) which are well known to the operating system and the recommended way to package software for distribution for Mac OS X users.
I've done these sorts of mass volume file transfers with the UNIX commands using a Terminal window as well. It isn't significantly faster than the Mac OS X Finder at doing them, and getting all the right command line options set up correctly is occasionally a bit of a fussy business. BTW, the name of the Apple operating system is not "MAC" (a manufacturer of high quality machine tools), it's "Mac OS X". On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Doug Franklin <jehosep...@mindspring.com> wrote: > I don't know about MAC specifics, since I'm a Windows and Linux sort of guy. > But I don't like using backup software, because it usually doesn't leave > the files in a directly accessible format on the backup target. So, I > generally just do regular file copies to the backup media. I don't > typically use the GUI for tasks like this, because I've found that on most > systems the command line tools for copying files work faster, since they > don't spend any time dinking around keeping the screen up to date. So, for > me, it'd be a small shell script or something that simply copies everything > I want backed up to the external drive. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
