On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 09:35:32PM +0200, Bernd Haug wrote: > > I'm new on the list, so sorry if I'm running into an ongoing topic > here (I checked the archives as far as they are available for the > search-string "mac"). > > I had some great experience with dirvish backing up a (Samba) > Fileserver, so I wanted to use it to backup my Mac's home to a local > external disk. ...
I started looking at this, but did not finish. If you could track this down, I would be obliged, but I don't have an answer for you right now. Macs use a different kind of file system ( "HFS" ) with "data" and "resource" forks for each file. These do not have unix kinds of permissions and mod dates, and don't keep their associations when transferred to different file systems. As a result, rsync, which is the core of dirvish, gets confused. Apple built their own version of rsync to deal with this, but I doubt it would be properly interoperable for incremental backups unless there are Macs at both ends. While the resource fork is depreciated in current Mac applications, it has a strong legacy and will take a long time to go away. Your best bet, if you are feeling ambitious, is to go to the rsync mailing list and look for "Tiger" or "10.4" and start following the threads. I hope there is a solution, but nothing immediately springs to mind. I hope you can come up with a solution, because I want to do network backups on my sister's computer and rsync and dirvish are the only practical way to move daily backups many miles. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
