preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

2008-01-18 Thread Moritz Heckscher
Hello all, I'm new to the list, but have done quite a bit of researching before regarding the support of Mac OS X specific features (resource forks, extended attributes, ACLs, file creation modification date). By reading the archives, I get the impression that the current version of

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

2008-01-18 Thread Moritz Heckscher
Am 2008-01-18 um 20:56 schrieb David Miller: On Jan 18, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Moritz Heckscher wrote: Hello all, I'm new to the list, but have done quite a bit of researching before regarding the support of Mac OS X specific features (resource forks, extended attributes, ACLs, file creation

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

2008-01-18 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 17:14 +0100, Moritz Heckscher wrote: Another problem I'm thinking about is that rsnapshot should be run on the server to pull the backups over the network. One cannot run it on the clients and push the data to the server over the network -- which is what I'd prefer

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

2008-01-18 Thread David Miller
On Jan 18, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Moritz Heckscher wrote: Hello all, I'm new to the list, but have done quite a bit of researching before regarding the support of Mac OS X specific features (resource forks, extended attributes, ACLs, file creation modification date). By reading the

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

2008-01-18 Thread Moritz Heckscher
Am 2008-01-19 um 03:11 schrieb Matt McCutchen: On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 17:14 +0100, Moritz Heckscher wrote: Another problem I'm thinking about is that rsnapshot should be run on the server to pull the backups over the network. One cannot run it on the clients and push the data to the server over

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

2008-01-18 Thread Moritz Heckscher
Am 2008-01-19 um 01:37 schrieb Moritz Heckscher: 3) To help with the checking/comparing, someone else built a little tool. It not only creates a collection of test files but can also compare the original and transferred versions afterwards:

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

2008-01-18 Thread Moritz Heckscher
Am 2008-01-19 um 01:37 schrieb Moritz Heckscher: 3) To help with the checking/comparing, someone else built a little tool. It not only creates a collection of test files but can also compare the original and transferred versions afterwards:

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

2008-01-18 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 04:39 +0100, Moritz Heckscher wrote: Good news indeed (for me at least)! Having read this FAQ on the rsnapshot page in an early stage, without having much background info about rsync and rsnapshot myself, I thought it was best to abandon the idea of pushed backups

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

2008-01-18 Thread Moritz Heckscher
Am 2008-01-19 um 05:31 schrieb Matt McCutchen: On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 05:12 +0100, Moritz Heckscher wrote: Using the following options for rsync: --archive --hard-links --acls --xattrs --executability --numeric-ids I get the following output from backup-bouncer: [...] Verifying:

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

2008-01-18 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 05:12 +0100, Moritz Heckscher wrote: Using the following options for rsync: --archive --hard-links --acls --xattrs --executability --numeric-ids I get the following output from backup-bouncer: [...] Verifying:bsd-flags ... FAIL BSD flags are handled by