Re: slightly off topic - looking for backup solution

2001-10-09 Thread Ken Williams
Chris Thorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Perl + rsync + tar.gz = Great backup options. Not really great, but it does help with some issues. It's better than the RAID solution, for instance - RAID is nice for protecting against drive failure, but it's hardly a backup. BTW, one of the

Re: looking for backup solution - PERL + AppleScript?

2001-10-09 Thread John Siracusa
On 10/9/01 10:39 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: It's too bad ppt didn't get to rsync. :) Well, that was next on my alphabetical list after robots... ;) From what I understand, this should copy a file $foo to $bar completely: use File::Copy; copy($foo, $bar);

Re: Inline::C (was Re: looking for backup solution...)

2001-10-09 Thread Craig S. Cottingham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, October 9, 2001, at 10:32 , Jefferson R. Lowrey wrote: John == John Siracusa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Well, if you could write an XS module that hooks into the same John APIs that the Finder is using... :) Has anyone tried

Re: Inline::C (was Re: looking for backup solution...)

2001-10-09 Thread Scott Prahl
John == John Siracusa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John John Well, if you could write an XS module that hooks into the same John APIs that the Finder is using... :) John John Has anyone tried Inline::C on OSX yet? I have and it does not work. As far as I can tell it has something to do with

Re: looking for backup solution - PERL + AppleScript?

2001-10-09 Thread Matthew Langford
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, John Siracusa wrote: If you use the OS X APIs for lossless file copy, you get it all. Try copying a Mac file from an HFS/HFS+ volume to a UFS volume in the Finder. You'll see how it creates two files, foo and ._foo on the destination drive. ._foo contains both the

Re: looking for backup solution - PERL + AppleScript?

2001-10-09 Thread John Siracusa
On 10/9/01 1:23 PM, Matthew Langford wrote: On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, John Siracusa wrote: If you use the OS X APIs for lossless file copy, you get it all. Try copying a Mac file from an HFS/HFS+ volume to a UFS volume in the Finder. You'll see how it creates two files, foo and ._foo on the

Re: getting closer to topic....

2001-10-09 Thread Jim Cooper
sorry, I was unclear in previous posting this tarw-1.0.5 is a perl script not a shell script(as was written on the authors page. NAME tarw - Wrapper for the unix tar/gnutar command SYNTAX tarw [-]{cx}[fmopvzRD] [tarwfile] file1 [file2...] Additional Functionality: -D

Re: slightly off topic - looking for backup solution

2001-10-09 Thread Bob Dalgleish
on 10/8/01 9:40 AM, Randal L. Schwartz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim == Jim Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim This looks useful Jim make a diskcopy Jim the dmg format is really useful And when this copy is restored back to my hard disk, will the aliases point at the

Re: looking for backup solution - PERL + AppleScript?

2001-10-09 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
John == John Siracusa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Well, if you could write an XS module that hooks into the same John APIs that the Finder is using... :) Has anyone tried Inline::C on OSX yet? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Inline::C (was Re: looking for backup solution...)

2001-10-09 Thread Jefferson R. Lowrey
John == John Siracusa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Well, if you could write an XS module that hooks into the same John APIs that the Finder is using... :) Has anyone tried Inline::C on OSX yet? I haven't. But I don't think it would do the job. Odds are good that the APIs the