Re: [Burp-users] OS X Extended Attributes

[SaintGermain <sai...@gm...>]

Hello Graham,

Would you be interested to work on the Mac if we manage to get you a Mac mini ?
Perhaps there are enough Mac users out there to collect enough money.
However the hardware is the easy part, the spare time you need is the hard part.

Regards

> Le 4 mars 2015 à 13:44, Graham Keeling <gr...@gr...> a écrit :
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
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