Re: [Burp-users] OS X Extended Attributes

[Graham K. <gr...@gr...>]

On Tue, March 3, 2015 12:47 pm, Joe Rhodes wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I’m a new BURP user.  After years of wrestling with Bacula, I find
> BURP’s feature set and simplicity extremely enticing.  The word that
> keeps coming to mind is “elegant”.  Thanks for all the work you’ve
> put in!
>
> It seems with OS X clients, BURP doesn’t backup any extended attributes,
> such as ACL’s, resource forks, etc.  Unfortunately with even one Mac on
> the network,  I can’t use BURP.  There are too many legacy files on OS X
> that become useless without resource forks.  (Fonts are one that comes to
> mind.)  So I am still using Bacula in these cases.
>
> Are there any plans to add this?   I don’t have much coding experience,
> or I’d attempt to do so myself.  Perhaps support could be ported from
> the Bacula client?
>
> Thanks again!
> -Joe Rhodes

Hello,

Thanks for your kind words.

I would like to have this working in burp.

However, the problems are that I don't have a Mac, and I don't know how to
emulate one, and I don't have any spare time, so I have no way to
port/develop/test anything related to Macs. Therefore I have no plans to
do it.
Of course, anybody else is welcome to do it.