On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Ken Nakata wrote:

> > 2. There was a thread a while back about back-ups.... Do anyone knows 
> > whether the old MacDump will compile on NEtBSD 1.4 and in particular 
> > whether the "Dumper" and "Restore" utilities on the Mac ara capable 
> > of backing HFS+ partitions?
> 
> I have no knowledge of the said software.  However, you cannot
> directly access MacOS partitions (whether HFS or HFS+) from NetBSD.
> That is, there is currently no HFS or HFS+ filesystem layer for
> NetBSD.  Of course, there are software packages that let you access
> your MacOS partitions, but those do not work with the standard
> dump/restore commands without first copying Mac files out to NetBSD
> partitions.

Don't dump and restore deal with partitions on a block basis as opposed to
a file-by-file basis?  Or does it do it by inodes?  Anyway, if you want a
really crude backup, you can always use dd.  :-)


David