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| HELIOS Xtar Now Available for Mac Intel HELIOS Software has released for free download a Mac Intel compatible version of its backup tool HELIOS Xtar. HELIOS Software is able to ensure reliable transfers of Mac meta data (Finder and resource information) between different platforms. Now HELIOS passes on its accumulated development experience to the Open Source community in the form of the free Xtar tool, which is basically the UNIX "tar" program extended by HELIOS to include full Mac OS X (PPC/Intel) compatibility. HELIOS 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 into a valid HFS file. In doing so, all Mac OS X specific meta data are preserved so that volumes are bootable after the restore. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |