On 22 Oct 2005, at 13:44, Yannick Wurm wrote:
Hi list,
has anyone succesfully used rdiff on Mac OS X Tiger?
I installed rdiff-backup 0.13.6 via 'fink install rdiff-backup'.
Despite installation going well, I always get errors, as shown
below (running rdiff with sudo gives the same result).
I've been using the latest rdiff-backup, version 1.0.1, which is
available in Fink's unstable tree. I've only been using it for a
couple of weeks, so I haven't yet decided if it is really working
100% properly. The checks I have made of the backed up data have not
yet uncovered any problems. I still need to do a proper test of a
recovery though.
I do need to use two special command-line switches though:
--no-carbonfile
--override-chars-to-quote ''
The --no-carbonfile switch is needed to avoid errors about carbonfile
data in some of my files. This switch makes rdiff-backup not copy
the carbonfile data. This isn't causing a problem with any of my
files, as far as I can tell, but it might be an issue for some people.
The --override-chars-to-quote '' switch is needed to avoid rdiff-
backup doing special encoding of upper case characters. It does this
because it knows that the file system it is backing up to is case
insensitive (the default HFS+ file system is case preserving, but
case insensitive, so a file named "SomeFile" would overwrite a file
named "somefile"). But, if both the source file system, and the
backup file system are HFS+, there is no need to worry, so this
switch stops the encoding of upper case characters. Note: the last
characters in that switch are two single-quote characters.
If you don't want to enable fink's unstable tree, I could e-mail you
my rdiff-backup-1.0.1 deb file so you could manually install it using
dpkg.
Kevin Horton
Ottawa, Canada
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