At 16:59 Uhr -0700 12.10.2001, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >To backup the OSX partition, I use rsync to a different Firewire >partition:
You could replace rsync with cpbk. I use cpbk under Debian (Linux), it has the advantage that you can do an incremental backup in a way that allows you to keep old versions of your files (which is very handy if you notice only some backups later that you had messed up something). I don't know whether cpbk compiles/works under MacOSX, but it might be worth a try. See http://packages.debian.org/testing/utils/cpbk.html (-> source code at the bottom) It has one rather big drawback, and that is that it uses much memory to keep both the source and dest tree before it even begins to synchronize them - I had to resort to the workaround of cpbk'ing not the root dir, but it's direct subdirectories individually instead. Maybe rsync is written better in this respect. See http://warehouse.ch/ethlife/www/scripts/cpbk/ for a script that takes care of that. I call it through a cron job each day. You'll have to change some things like which harddrive to mount for copying to etc. Of course it's a perl script so it's on topic here :D Christian.
