HFS+ backup tool

["Andrew J. Barr" <andrew.james.barr@gmail.com>]

I see that partimage doesn't work on big-endian machines, but I am
leery of using a tool like dar because I don't know if I'll easily be
able to replicate any voodoo (e.g. boot sectors) that Mac OS X needs to
boot. Can anyone recommend a backup tool for HFS+ partitions (journal
is turned off) that is better than dd + gzip (which compresses a 12GB
partition with 4.1GB of data into 7.8GB)?

Thanks in advance.

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Andrew J. Barr

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