XFS Filing System

Connect the drive to a computer that can read the filesystem and can also read/write either FAT32, NTFS, UFS, or Mac OS Extended. Attach a second drive so formatted and copy the files to that drive. OS X can read/write FAT32 and UFS formatted drives. It can also read-only NTFS formatted drives.

Alternatively if the two computers can be networked you may be able to transfer the files via Ethernet.

If there isn't a lot of data involved you could put the files into a ZIP archive and email them to yourself. You could put the data on an ISO 9660 formatted CD/DVD.



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I assume the files you want are on this NAS device? If so why not connect a FAT32 or Mac OS Extended formatted drive to one of the computers that has network access to the NAS device. Then copy the files you want from the NAS drive to the drive that you can read on the Mac.

I guess because everything is networked I don't really see what the problem would be in simply copying from the NAS device to any other drive connected to any computer on the network regardless of how any of the drives are formatted.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your situation. I have five computers on my home network as well as a NAS device that is accessible wired and wireless. All the computers along with any external drives can be used interchangeably to transfer to or from the NAS which is Linux based.

What if you connect the USB drive to one of the Mac computers and format it as Mac OS Extended. Then clone the NAS drive to the USB drive through the network. This way it makes no difference how either drive is formatted because the cloning is being done over the network.

Yes, my NAS is on 24/7. However, it automatically sleeps after 15 minutes of inactivity. That's configurable in the NAS firmware.

In retrospect I'm not as enamored with the NAS now that I have one. Aside from the fact that it's slow (even over gigabit Ethernet) it also has major limitations with respect to filenames. You cannot use any Unix/MSDOS illegal characters in filenames. So I have to screen and rename files and folders before backups. I've since taken it offline and returned to my old system of simply backing up to external Firewire drives and dedicated internal drives.



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If the NAS drive is mounted then you can copy anything to it or anything from it. If you have both NAS drive and the external drive mounted then you should be able to copy the contents of the NAS drive to the external drive (or any other mounted drive.)

If you have a copy of parallels, you could install a linux client into parallels, then directly connect the XFS drive to the virtual machine. It should be able to mount the xfs filesystem (as xfs is included in the kernel) and then you can move items off to the mac HDD through the .psf sharing.