On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Hello, > > I have recently inherited a (voluntary) sysadminjob. > > We have a fileserver where Macs and Windows clients can connect to. > > On the fileserver I use netatalk and samba. > > I have about 10 gig of data on it and I want to dump that data to a > DVD. I have found someone who has a DVD burner so I only have to make > a couple of images. > > The problem is I do not know how to handle the files from the Mac. > They do not have an extension. > > When the DVD is burned the files made on apple machines must be again > readable on a apple machine. The files made on a Windows computer > must be readable on a Windows machine. > > I tried to make an image of a couple of directories with mkisofs -r -J > but it shortened a lot of filenames. Many, but many file names are > very long and have much of spaces. > > So my question is: what is the best way to make my image so I do not > loose the long filenames and the DVD is readable in the Macs and > Windows computers. Would a simple tar archive work? mac,win, and un*x can read and write tar and it should preserve the file names. -K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
