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Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines?

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On 3/30/2012 1:02 PM PT, Jamie Kahn Genet typed:

> Ant<ant@zimage.comANT>  wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> Is it possible to access an external USB HDD's data, that is used for
>> Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups, on non-Apple Mac machines
>> (Windows and Linux)? Or can it be only be accessed with a Mac? I use
>> multiple computers and OSes.
>>
>> Thank you in advance. :)
>
> Yes, you'll need software that adds HFS+ read (at least) capability to
> your other OSes, e.g.
> <http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows/>  and
> <http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/>  for Windows. Things can
> get a little more involved in Linux depending on the distro, e.g.
> <http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Hfsplus>.
>
> IIRC Time Capsules backup inside a sparsebundle, so you'll need to be
> able to mount those as well in that particular case. Otherwise TM
> backups to a regular external HD like yours are just files in folders,
> when viewed from other OSes.
>
> Note if you've backed anything up with a resource fork (rare nowadays),
> you'll destroy it if you copy it over to a FAT or NTFS disk.

Thanks. I don't know what resource fork is. Are you saying copying 
folders/directories and files to FAT and NTFS drives would mess them up? :(
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Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-03-24 09:16 -0700
  Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-03-31 09:02 +1300
    Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-30 21:14 -0400
      Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-03-30 22:40 -0700
        Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-31 11:46 -0400
          Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-31 11:57 -0400
          Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-03-31 13:16 -0700
            Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-31 16:25 -0400
              Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-03-31 17:18 -0700
            Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-02 00:54 -0400
          Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2012-04-01 12:22 +1300
    Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-03-30 22:40 -0700
      Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-03-31 20:15 +1300
        Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-03-31 05:44 -0700

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