Will Prater wrote: > Hello, > > Im trying to get Resource for support on FreeBSD 6.1. Here is the > output from rdiff-backup: > > ==================== > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/sysutils/rdiff-backup]# rdiff-backup -v5 -- > print-statistics /host/cobalt/c/fun/ /backup/cobalt/funUnable to > import module xattr. > Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at /host/cobalt/c/fun > ACLs not supported by filesystem at /host/cobalt/c/fun > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Detected abilities for source (read only) file system: > Access control lists Off > Extended attributes Off > Case sensitivity On > Mac OS X style resource forks Off > Mac OS X Finder information Off > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > <snip> > ====================== > > How does one get the "Mac OS X style resource forks" and "Mac OS X > Finder information" options enabled? Is this something to do with > pyxattr? I could not seem to get that module to install on FreeBSD.
All five of these things refer to different properties *of the filesystem* that have or have not been detected. Only the Mac filesystem HFS+ supports "Mac OS X style resource forks" and "Mac OS X Finder information". Unless you have some bizarre setup, you shouldn't expect to see that as 'On' for a Free BSD box. If your FreeBSD box *does* use HFS+ as a filesystem, you'll have to use a python distribution where the usually Mac-only calls are enabled for your OS. Extended attributes are file attributes at the filesystem level. I know ext3fs has them (but you need to explicitly turn them on as a mount option) and the Mac HFS+ filesystem has them. The python module pyxattr (http://pyxattr.sourceforge.net/) supports them for ext2/ext3 or XFS on Linux and the python module xattr (http://undefined.org/python/) supports them for HFS+ on Mac OS X. So, if you're running FreeBSD, I don't think either of these options are for you, but sufficient Googling could certainly prove me wrong. ACL's are a whole different beast (although on an implementation level, they could be stored in the extended attributes). There's a pylibacl module (http://pylibacl.sourceforge.net/), which supports Linux and makes a strange claim about FreeBSD support. For Mac OS X, ACL support will require it's own python module. One last note: if the system you are backing up from supports feature X and the destination system does not support feature X, rdiff-backup will store the properties of feature X in it's metadata file and restore the metadata on the backed-up system upon file restore. This is what makes rdiff-backup perfect for backing-up, say, Mac OS X machines to Linux servers. Best, Andrew -- Andrew Ferguson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
