Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD

[Joe Auty]

I've heard of many people having problems with RsyncX and the version  
of rsync included in OS X crapping out and being unreliable.

RsyncX and the patched rsync (the former being a GUI for the CLI  
rsync) that ships with OS X attempts to preserve resource forks and  
other file metadata (a lot of it from the OS 9 era where this stuff  
mattered). If you don't care at all about these attributes (I don't),  
I would recommend building a copy of the stock rsync from Macports,  
similar to FreeBSD ports in design: http://www.macports.org

Here is a partial (or possibly complete) list of file metadata that I  
believe would be lost by using the stock rsync in OS X:

- get info/Finder comments (this has been replaced with Spotlight  
comments in 10.4 which are saved to the Spotlight DB, not as file  
metadata)

- application associations for files without file extensions

- application associations for many OS 9 files, since OS 9 did not  
force file extensions and many users didn't bother with them

- custom icons pasted on




On Jan 26, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Gable Barber wrote:

> On 1/26/07, Doug Hardie <bc979 at lafn.org> wrote:
>>
>
>> RsyncX for Mac will sync to a FreeBSD filesystem.
>
> Thank you.
>
> I will try these out.
>
> Gable
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