On Dec 30, 2005, at 2:05 PM, George Geller wrote:
rsync doesn't work for me using Mac OS X as a client. It bombs with "Bus Error". When I back up a Mac OS X box, I boot with an Ubuntu PPC live cd, open a terminal window, and do rsysnc with something like:
I've never had rsync not work for my on my OS X systems (a recent Powerbook and an old G3). The problem with the base rsync in OS X (and rsync in general) is that it doesn't understand resource forks. I'm not sure much really uses them anymore (well, aside from anything from Adobe), but if they're lost, it can create significant pain.
The main complaint about this method is that Mac OS X is not available during the backup, which can take a long time because the Mac is being used to make multi-gigabyte videos.There is something called rsyncx for Mac OS X, but I haven't had time totry it yet.
I have used it. It's patched to include support for Mac OS-specific filesystem attributes (primarily resource forks, a.k.a. extended attributes). The main hangup is that if you're using the OS X- specific features, the other end needs to be running rsyncx, too.
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