Re: Configuration on OS X

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 01/31/13 09:49, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> 1. Where should tarsanp.key go on OS X?
> 2. launchd or cron on OS X?

I don't use OS X so I can't offer any suggestions here...

> 3. How HFS+ (OS X default filesystem) aware is tarsnap?
> 
> I don't foresee that I'll be using it where I need to worry about extended
> attributes, (deprecated) resource forks, and other things that may be HFS+
> specific, but if I can get an idea of limitations up front, that might help
> me avoid surprises later.

... but I can speak to the state of Tarsnap at least.  In the current release,
resource forks definitely don't work, but extended attributes should work at
least to the extent that they're covered by file flags or posix1e.  More
complete support will come once I update Tarsnap to use a newer version of
libarchive, but that's currently not my top priority.

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Colin Percival
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