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It's been a while, but as i remember it, HFS+ write capability was lacking last i tried to use the HFS filesystem in conjunction with Linux (two+ years ago). Perhaps if you could format the (Time Machine?) backup drive with NTFS, things would be easier on the Linux side in regards to write access. Failing that, i remember Carbon Copy Cloner being a very reliable OS X backup solution, that plays nicely with NTFS. It does take snapshots though (bootable ones), but it can work incrementally, so that fact is not necessarily a deal breaker when considering a user-files backup solution. Though you wouldn't be able to write to the backups from your Linux system (without messing with coherence of the backup image), i'm not sure why you would need to. She is keeping OS X on the Air, right? So as long as you can access files from another machine in case of emergency, Linux or otherwise... and the fact that you have a bootable recovery disk is a bonus, should she want to repave a new Air in case of theft or damage. Am i understanding the requirements correctly? Here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/hfsplus it says that to get write access to HFS, you would have to turn off journaling on the OS X side. Tangentially, Apple are bringing out a new file system soon. And it's not ZFS... On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 11:57:15 +0000 Adrian Midgley <amidgley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > All can I think. Might have to specifically install the Mac filesystem > though. > > > On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 at 10:45 Eion MacDonald <eionmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Dear folks, > > 20160910 > > off topic but what Linux distro could read and write to a mac > > computer's external back up? > > Impoverished new student (medical) has present of a Mac-Book Air from > > her father. > > > > I would like her to have a 'secondary computer' at her lodgings > > just to read her backup USB external hard disc in case her Mac-book air > > is stolen(External hard disc back up USB or such, I have recommended she > > have, as I have had some students with no back ups and thus trouble, but > > on Windows computers, where i have recovered their non booting machines.) > > > > I have no experience of Mac computers but do have an old machine Core-2 > > Pro CPU running Linux (Linux Mint 17) and I could change the distro and > > give to her. > > > > What distro should I load for her? > > > > -- > > regards > > Eion MacDonald > > > > -- > > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > > https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq > > -- Sheikh Micg al Huz <micg_huz@xxxxxxx> -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq