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On 7 Dec 2006, at 13:50, Oliver Humpage wrote:
> When I experimented with backing up to a FreeBSD box mounted over  
> NFS, there
> were quite a lot of issues - especially aliases and programmes. You  
> really
> shouldn't rely on the .-files when making backups.

The main problem I've had is that Samba, Netatalk, mod_dav, rsync,  
NFS and direct mounting of a FAT32 drive all use different schemes  
for (a) storing metadata, and (b) handling weird characters in  
filenames.  As a result, sharing an iTunes library between machines  
can be tricky.  Björk and Röyksopp usually work, but Ravel's Boléro  
gets munged every time I try.


> If you want to keep a FAT32 drive, just create a sparseimage on it  
> (that is,
> it's resizeable but only takes up the space you're using), and  
> mount it.
> Then you can save files you want to give to the PC on the disk  
> itself, and
> Mac-only files into the mounted disk image. A bit like partitioning  
> the disk
> into 2, only with live-resizeable partitions.

Problem is, the main reason I want this is interoperability between  
my iBook and my LinkStation and the occasional Windows box (pppt  
pppt).  I want to be able to mount my iTunes and iPhoto collections  
on non-Macs, without everything getting munged on the way.

Tom

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