Rar for Mac

BillytheImpaler

BillytheImpaler

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I've got a disk image I need to backup that is currently on a Mac. It's the image used in a few workstations around here and it's be a shame to lose it in the event of a disk failure. I'd like to transfer it from an Intel iMac to my Debian workstation. It's too large for a DVD so I thought it would be easy to throw on a firewire external disk. However, it occurred to me that Linux won't understand HFS+. I don't have support for UFS in my kernel and I really, really don't want to recompile just for this. I could use fat32 but it's limited to files that are under 4 GiB in size. I thought it would be a snap to use rar to split the file into multiple parts. I discovered that OS X apparently doesn't include rar in their system utilities. That brings me to my current question.

How on earth do I use rar for Mac? :o

I downloaded it and attempted to use it like so:
cd to the directory that contains the rar utility.
then run
Code: 
./rar a -v1000000k img_backup ~/Desktop/img_backup.iso
That spits out the error message "Bus Error"

Apparently rar doesn't come with a man page. There must be something easy that I'm overlooking or I must be doing something horribly n00by. Please help! :o
 
AJUK, does that program work for creating archives? I want to create it on the mac then extract it on Linux. I'm sure I won't have any trouble unpacking it.

Titchard, how do I use Stuffit to make an archive? Is it a different version than the version that ships with 10.4?
 
UnRarX is by far the best I've used.

Simple program that automatically opens and unpacks with a double click (no messing around with terminal code) - Comes as a Universal Binary too :D

http://www.unrarx.com/
 
any particular reason you are wanting to use rar? You could probably achieve a similar level of compression using bzip2 which is standard on all UNICEs
 
I don't really care what format it is, just so long as I can split the archive into parts that I can reconstitute later. I don't care at all about compression.

I know rar can do that so it was my initial preference.
 
Can't you just ftp/http/ SCP it over to your machine?

If it's an image for a workstation, how do you get it off the machine onto a workstation in the first place?
 
whitecrook said:
If it's an image for a workstation, how do you get it off the machine onto a workstation in the first place?
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We format a hard disk HFS+ which doesn't mind large files. The only reason I'm having this problem is that I want to take it to Linux. I'd have the same issue if I wanted to take it to Windows as well.

I suppose I should just set up a wee FTP server and do it that way. I just thought it'd be quicker to ask how to use rar software for the Mac. They make it but I still haven't a clue how to use it and the documentation is rather poor.
 
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