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News Release from: Helios Software GmbH | Subject: Mac Intel compatible version
Xtar back-up tool
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 13 March 2007
Mac Intel Back-Up Tool's Reliable File
Transfers
Helios Software has released for free download a Mac Intel compatible version of its backup tool Xtar.
Helios Software has released for free download a Mac Intel compatible version of its back-up tool Xtar The company claimed that it is able to ensure reliable transfers of Mac meta data (finder and resource information) between different platforms and now it is passing on its accumulated development experience in the form of the Xtar tool, which is basically the UNIX 'tar' program
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 17 Jul 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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that has been extended by Helios to include full Mac OS X (PPC/Intel) compatibility.
Helmut Tschemernjak, chief executive officer and president of Helios, said: "It is a Helios Software tradition to share our development know-how in the form of free tools.
For example, Lantest is used worldwide as a standard tool for measuring network data throughput.
Likewise, our File System Test, is a tool used frequently as a neutral reference to verify the Mac OS X compatibility of file systems." Helios's Xtar for Mac (PPC/Intel) stores each HFS file as a double file in the standard 'tar' format.
Unicode file names, as well as all meta data - including creation and modification date - are preserved.
During the restore with Xtar to an HFS volume, the finder and resource information are written in to a valid HFS file.
In doing so, all Mac OS X specific meta data are preserved so that volumes are bootable after the restore, said Helios.
Tschemernjak commented: "Xtar qualifies as the ideal tool for cloning Mac OS X system drives.
In Helios server installations, Xtar reliably performs data migration from Mac OS X systems to Helios volumes and vice versa." Helios's Htar is a commercially developed 'tar' tool, which preserves Mac meta data even on restoring data to Helios volumes under Windows, it is claimed.
The htar tool is part of the Helios UB server suite for Windows, which has been available since the end of 2006.
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