Chris; I have worked out a usable method of using the Mac-aware version of rsync that the GUI app RsyncX is intended to work with. I started out creating command strings with the GUI app and broke down what operations they performed. I then went through the wonderland of learning ssh setup with private-key no password login.
I then hacked a Perl script to command via a cron event on the backup server by UDP datagrams a Perl script running as a daemon on the client to throw the proper command to the rsync utility. This is a lot more complicated than I have described, very kludgy, and in great need of refactoring - but is seems to work. So even a dumb-bunny like me can after a while succeed (sort of). I have no idea how the internals of rsync or psync really work - I started out using psync, but it seemed to quit working reliably about 10.3.5 or so. I can send you some notes, code, etc. offline if it might help (if you promise not to die from laughing at my "programming"). darryl holder
