On Jul 4, 2010, at 11:37 AM, Dan wrote: > At 2:19 PM -0400 7/4/2010, Dan wrote: >> At 10:48 AM -0700 7/4/2010, John Carmonne wrote: >>> I'm in the process of setting up RsyncX to do incremental backups of my >>> movie and music files. So right out of the box I get an error code 12. Any >>> one know what this is telling me? >> >> It's telling you that it doesn't like you, or it's a bad build. > > Um... My note file has a couple of comments about rsync. I'm too lazy to > verify the info right now, but... fwiw... There are been releases of rsync > leave you with corrupted files. RsyncX, that I find when I google, is from > 2004!!!!! LONG before many updates etc!!!!! Is there one newer than 2.1? > > I recall reading on Bombich's site/forums (he's the author of CCC), that they > used backup-bouncer to test CCC, and the *patched* rcync it includes, to > verify that it WORKS. > > IMO doing any large scale file manipulations - copy, backup, etc - using > outdated tools is a BAD IDEA. > > FWIW, > - Dan. > > ps. Happy 4th of July! > Yeah you're right RsuncX 2.1 is the latest AFAIK so I need to scout an application or connct the drives directly to the working machine, Bummer. Finder drag will have to do for now.
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