I am using HFS but the files are being zipped up using stuff-it(MAC winzip/tar.gz) So forks aren't a problem since I don't need the metadata from the forked file when it is from a stuffed/zipped file. Unfortunatly the server in question is already online. It works most the time, but we do have to kill rsync an awful lot. I will see if I can find a test server to try UFS on. Maybe UFS will play better for some reason.
Thanks for all the good suggestions so far, any other suggestions are welcome since it will be a couple of days before I can scrounge this testbed together. And please don't say use linux... I've tried to tell the owner that :) hehe Adam -----Original Message----- From: Martin Langhoff Sent: Wed 7/30/2003 6:59 PM To: Adam Behn Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mirroring OS X folders with Rsync What filesystem are you using? If you are using HFS or HFS+ I suggest you give UFS a try because it all the filesystem semantics are what unix tools expect. While I haven't seen your specific problem, I am sure there are quite a few situations where rsync and other unix tools will be confused on HFS. Additionally, HFS and HFS+ store resource forks that rsync (and scp, amanda, tar, etc) won't see -- therefore your files are likely to be incomplete after being transferred with rsync or any other unix-level utility. If you are using UFS, then the resource forks will be transferred ok, because MacOSX will store them as hidden files instead of resource forks (or data streams, as they are known in the Win32 world). regards, martin Adam Behn wrote: >I'm just looking for some advice on a project I am currently working on. > >I have two OS X servers and I am looking to use rsync to mirror data between >the two. I just love the fact that rsync only moves the data incrementally. >
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