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Tivoli Storage Manager for Macintosh Backup-Archive Client Installation and User's Guide

Supported File Systems

Tivoli Storage Manager supports HFS, HFS+, UFS, UDF, and ISO 9600 file systems, as defined in Table 10.

Table 10. Supported File Systems

File System Supported Platform Tivoli Storage Manager support
Hierarchical File System (HFS) and Hierarchical File System Plus (HFS+) Macintosh OS X, 9.1
  • Case-insensitive, but case-preserving
  • Supports creation and modification dates as metadata
  • Supports aliases
  • 32 character limit for folders and file names.
  • Recognized as a local file system.

UNIX File System (UFS) Macintosh OS X
  • UFS is case-sensitive
  • Supports modification dates as metadata
  • Supports aliases and symbolic links
  • 32 character limit for folders and file names
  • Recognized as a local file system.

Universal Disk Format (UDF ) Macintosh OS X, 9.1 The Universal Disk Format for DVD volumes. Recognized as removable media.
ISO 9660 Macintosh OS X, 9.1 The standard format for CD-ROM volumes. Recognized as removable media.

UFS file systems are not supported by the Macintosh OS 9.1 client or by applications running in the Classic environment on Macintosh OS X.

The UFS file system is sensitive to case whereas the HFS+ file system is case-insensitive but is case-preserving. Files that you back up from a UFS file system (case-sensitive) may not be restored properly to an HFS+ file system (case-insensitive) file system. On a UFS file system, files Afile and afile are seen as different files. However, on an HFS+ file system the two files are seen as identical.

Aliases and symbolic links are backed up. However, Tivoli Storage Manager does not back up the data the symbolic links point to.


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