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I frequently have to perform this kind of operation and always use
Dantz's Retrospect. It works like a charm!
If you put a PC-formatted HD in a Mac, the Mac will want to
initialize it. If you're in a networked environment, go with a
cross-platform file server if you have one available to you.
...ROMeyn
Somewhen around 10:42 AM -0700 5/29/01, a person believing themself
to be Peter Thomas scribbled:
>>If this is possible, any gotchas to watch out for?
>
>The only possible gotcha I have first hand experience with, is using
>the Mac's Finder to copy large amounts of data. I recently backed up
>20 gigs to an external firewire drive, reformatted the internal
>disk, and then tried to copy the information back to the internal
>drive. The Finder frequently hung wile trying to deal with the
>thousands of files i was trying to move.
>
>I found that copying smaller chunks of data (under 3000 files) at a
>time, I was able to finally move the stuff from the firewire drive
>back to the internal disk. Needless to say, this was time consuming
>and frustrating.
>--
>
>-Peter
>
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