Apple provides the "ditto" command with OS X, which can copy things like the resource fork and other information that things like tar and rsync often mess up or ignore. You can use this command to write back up scripts for OS X that will preserve that kind of information, as well as HFS+ information (I think). ditto also does merges pretty well, can go across architectures, and doesn't modify owner/group/other permissions, so it does sound like it would work pretty well for what you're doing.
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