Hello,
I found that using rsync on OS X can give some problems when it comes to
Extended Attributes (-X flag).
The server I use has Ubuntu with the filesystem XFS and I am trying to backup a
OS X system to it. The problem is as far as I understand it that Linux Kernel
has a liming on 64k för Extended Attributes and OS X don’t have this limit.
Some error output.
rsync: rsync_xal_set:
lsetxattr(""/srv/danne/extern2/1000_EXT/2013/2013-03-05/IMG_6872-Edit.tif"","user.com.apple.ResourceFork")
failed: Argument list too long (7)
Error 2
rsync: rsync_xal_set:
lsetxattr(""/srv/nas/home/apple_bak_rsync/xxxxx/Pictures/iPhoto
Library/Database/BigBlobs.apdb"","user.com.apple.FinderInfo") failed: Operation
not permitted (1)
Both this errors will go away if removing the -X flag from rsync.
What I would like to see is a feature in rsync that checks the destination
operation system environment and if it can’t handle the size of the EA being
transferred then stores the EA information in a separate file.
//Sun_Blood
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