using tar to Backup applications

[Stegion]

I have been trying to use Tar to backup my applications and then burn them to CD for storage but it does not work. When i untar applications they lose their resource forks and change into folders and are nolonger applications. Does anyone have a solution.






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[baur]

...some random thought/ideas.

As far as I know, tar will work on Cocoa apps, but not on carbon ones - I could be way off base on that, however.
You might try using ditto instead, although that will do a copy, not an archive action.

The other thing to consider (although a little extreme, perhaps) is to use UFS instead of HFS+ for the filesystem. All files on the system will already be "split" into seperate files for data and resources (if the filename is "file" then the resource file will be "._file"), then you can tar them up (I think) without a problem.

[vertigo]

Originally posted by Stegion
Does anyone have a solution.

don't use tar stuffit is probably your best bet, and dropstuff is free. or you could make a compressed disk image if you have something against stuffit.

[Stegion]

I like the idea of using a UFS filesystem. Here's one way that you could easily do this:
1) Use Disk Copy to make a UFS disk image
2) Copy your app to the disk image
3) Use tar to make a backup from the UFS image
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I made a ufs disk image and could not copy anything to that image to TAR, it looks like i am stuck with stuffit

thanks for all or your help



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[Stegion]

Thanks Testuser your suggestions worked perfectly






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