Backing Up OSX files with Ubuntu? or other way?

[wtf69wtf]

i have a Black MacBook and recentlly i got an I/O error. now i cant boot into it

after reading around for a while i learned that there is no way of fixing it. the only thing that can do is to backup and reinstall OSX with zeroing (0) out everything.

 

so how can i backup everything?

when under Ubuntu the HFS+ mounts but i cant copy anything because of permissions.

How can i Remove the permissions and save all the Data?

planning on backing up on external hard drive.

 

thanks.

[Aurora]

Are you manually mounting the drive or is Ubuntu automounting it?

 

If you're looking for a quick fix, just use a terminal and 'sudo rsync -av /path/to/macdrive /wherever/you\'d/like'.

[wtf69wtf]

I am Letting Ubuntu mount it

i just double click it and it gets mounted.

i just want to backup my Home folder. when i do it does not let me b/c i do not have enough permissions to copy or modify.

thanks

 

ps

whats with the command, what does it do?

[Aurora]

Ah, Ubuntu is reading the HFS+ permissions correctly and disallowing access to private folders. The only way you can get around this is to login as root, or if you're comfortable using the terminal, try the command I listed above.

 

'rsync' will sync the contents of the first folder to the second, permissions and all.