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copying off an CD burned on a mac long ago... (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I have some old HFS formatted burned CDs burning in toast on a classic mac. A friend needs his stuff moved off these backups onto his NAS but his modern mac cannot read these CDs. I can mount them in linux manually but the filenames have illegal characters so I cannot copy them over to anything without losing like half of them.

How to I copy these files off the CDs?

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[–] elmicha@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If nobody has a better idea, you could create a loop device with a HFS filesystem, copy the CD to that filesystem, replace all bad filenames, then copy everything to a normal filesystem.

Edit: apparently there's a --iconv option in rsync: https://askubuntu.com/a/540960

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

that looks like something I tried earlier that partially worked. It seems like for that method I need the iocharset declared at mount time and then to use rsync with the correct iconv flags

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

--iconv shows option not supported