Author Topic: Clone Utility (Read 1616 times)

Bill · « **on:** July 30, 2003, 07:32:16 PM »

"UNIX batch HFS disk backup/clone utility for Mac OS X"

http://www.helios.de/news/news03/N_06_03.html

Has anyone tried it?

Paddy · « **Reply #1 on:** July 30, 2003, 09:35:53 PM »

It's had 594 downloads at VersionTracker, but only one comment so far - from someone who takes issue with statements about the resource fork. Nothing helpful about the functionality of the program!!!

Carbon Copy Cloner works for me...but if someone else wants to try it out...let us know, won't you?

Bill · « **Reply #2 on:** July 30, 2003, 09:41:23 PM »

"Carbon Copy Cloner works for me...but if someone else wants to try it out...let us know, won't you?"

You've got that right.

kps · « **Reply #3 on:** July 31, 2003, 02:06:05 AM »

This is a command line tool and you must use the Terminal to use it. So, in that case, you might as well use the ditto -rsrcFork command which is used by CCC to copy and clone files and volumes.

I installed xtar, but haven't used it yet. It installs in /usr/local/xtar with a symlink to /usr/bin and there's no man page, but there is a help page. xtar --help

It's based on GNU-tar, an opensource unix archiving utility. BTW, tar (tape archive) is included in OS X.

Bill · « **Reply #4 on:** July 31, 2003, 07:04:45 PM »

QUOTE(kps @ Jul 31 2003, 12:06 AM)

This is a command line tool and you must use the Terminal to use it. So, in that case, you might as well use the ditto -rsrcFork command which is used by CCC to copy and clone files and volumes.

I installed xtar, but haven't used it yet. It installs in /usr/local/xtar with a symlink to /usr/bin and there's no man page, but there is a help page. xtar --help

It's based on GNU-tar, an opensource unix archiving utility. BTW, tar (tape archive) is included in OS X.

Yeah. What he said.
I knew that.

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