Dan,
I have experimented with rsync+hfsmode (both versions: rsync-2.6.3
+hfsmode-1.2b2 and rsync-2.6.6+hfsmode-1.3a1) with limited success.
If I back up a few files, it seems to work. And the files can be
recovered by retrieving both "file" and "._file" and then using an
apple function, FixupResourceForks (/System/Library/CoreServices/
FixupResourceForks) on the restored directory. I'm sure we could
automate this restore in BackupPC. We should also hide the "._file"
in the backup file lists and automatically select them on a restore.
The problem seems to be that on a larger directory, something seems
to break in the backup. I think the patched rsync file (with the "--
hfs-mode=appledouble" option) crashes for some reason. I'm not sure
how to track this down, hopefully it's a simple problem to fix.
-Chris
On Nov 12, 2007, at 11:42 PM, Dan Pritts wrote:
> Perhaps this site would be a useful reference:
>
> http://www.quesera.com/reynhout/misc/rsync+hfsmode/
>
> I've used this patched rsync with some success but have certainly
> not tested it exhaustively. It is probably not ready for prime time
> for many people, since it does not have a "restore" option - when
> rsyncing back to your mac it does not convert out of appledouble
> back into normal format. this is scriptable, though, i guess.
>
> The advantage is that in theory it does not require modifications
> to the
> linux-side rsync, since it just tells the other side it has two files,
> one for each part of the resource fork; it might even "just work"
> with backuppc.
>
> I also came across this:
>
> http://www.lartmaker.nl/rsync/
>
> Which might be helpful but doesn't solve the problem of backuppc not
> working with apple's rsync.
>
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