Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:00:46 -0500 From: Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org> To: Gable Barber <gablebarber@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD Message-ID: <9224889D-C2AA-4B7A-B6F1-2C6DFAE336E6@netmusician.org> In-Reply-To: <aab166ce0701261428x678045cal2ffb6bea3ced2ddb@mail.gmail.com> References: <aab166ce0701261310y2b6b6855o42ce8f426b04d42d@mail.gmail.com> <D0C14991-3F99-4207-A6D7-D2DE5DC1F1A3@lafn.org> <aab166ce0701261428x678045cal2ffb6bea3ced2ddb@mail.gmail.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --Apple-Mail-39-674802510 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed 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 On Jan 26, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Gable Barber wrote: > On 1/26/07, Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote: >> > >> RsyncX for Mac will sync to a FreeBSD filesystem. > > Thank you. > > I will try these out. > > Gable > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --Apple-Mail-39-674802510 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFvm6PCgdfeCwsL5ERAooAAKCQdqda3wT1J1IVfGNGg6tfrPbplQCfRs1M bpjb9VCP+etDy5rJDdxR5q0= =2XY9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-39-674802510--
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