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XTar for Mac

By HELIOS SoftwareFree
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Key Details of XTar

  • Clone and back up your Mac OS X system disc with full HFS support.
  • Last updated on 11/7/2008
  • There have been 1 updates
  • Virus scan status:

    Clean (it's extremely likely that this software program is clean)

Developer's Description

By HELIOS Software
Clone and back up your Mac OS X system disc with full HFS support.
HFS stores Finder and Resource information on HFS within one file. Standard Unix applications can only see the data part. HFS-compatible applications can deal with the additional resource and finder information but they do not understand UNIX special files. This means that the copies will be incomplete and many files will just refuse to work.

Xtar solves this problem by saving each data and resource forks as two files in the standard TAR container format to preserve all information. During a restore with Xtar on an HFS volume, the resource and finder information will be restored into a valid HFS files containing all information. This prevents data loss and enables you to create a bootable backup disc of Mac OS X. It is also ideal for backing up and restoring files and folders. Xtar is based on GNU tar (version 1.13.25).

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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
July 30, 2003
Latest update
November 7, 2008
Version
1.0
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Mac
Operating System
Mac OS X, Mac OS X 10.0
Additional Requirements
Mac OS X
POPULARITY
Total Downloads
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