Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:17:32 -0800 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org> Cc: Gable Barber <gablebarber@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD Message-ID: <708A1B55-B871-4085-941B-520C110E7055@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <9224889D-C2AA-4B7A-B6F1-2C6DFAE336E6@netmusician.org> References: <aab166ce0701261310y2b6b6855o42ce8f426b04d42d@mail.gmail.com> <D0C14991-3F99-4207-A6D7-D2DE5DC1F1A3@lafn.org> <aab166ce0701261428x678045cal2ffb6bea3ced2ddb@mail.gmail.com> <9224889D-C2AA-4B7A-B6F1-2C6DFAE336E6@netmusician.org>
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On Jan 29, 2007, at 14:00, Joe Auty wrote: > I've heard of many people having problems with RsyncX and the > version of rsync included in OS X crapping out and being unreliable. > > RsyncX and the patched rsync (the former being a GUI for the CLI > rsync) that ships with OS X attempts to preserve resource forks and > other file metadata (a lot of it from the OS 9 era where this stuff > mattered). If you don't care at all about these attributes (I > don't), I would recommend building a copy of the stock rsync from > Macports, similar to FreeBSD ports in design: http://www.macports.org > > Here is a partial (or possibly complete) list of file metadata that > I believe would be lost by using the stock rsync in OS X: > > - get info/Finder comments (this has been replaced with Spotlight > comments in 10.4 which are saved to the Spotlight DB, not as file > metadata) > > - application associations for files without file extensions > > - application associations for many OS 9 files, since OS 9 did not > force file extensions and many users didn't bother with them > > - custom icons pasted on I have heard that also. However, I have been using it for backups for about 3 years now and every time the backup disk boots and everything I check works normally.
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