rsync - Jul 2002 - RSYNC/FreeBSD/Macintosh files...

I am wanting to rsync over mac files to a freebsd 4.5 box, but have
recently found out that rsync does not preserve resource forks, or creator
types and maybe some other things. But, has anybody had any experience like
this, would tar'ing the files and then rsync'ing that seem a worthwhile
solution. There's a lot, so testing is going slowly. Thanks!

Brad Lynch
Info  Sys Coordinator
New Pioneer Co-op
Iowa City/Coralville
http://www.newpi.com

Macs are supported using Rsync..you need to have version 2.5.5, it's
distributed with RsyncX. You can grab a copy at http://www.macosxlabs.org/
I've found it useful to copy from a local harddrive to another local hard
drive, but I haven't gotten it to work successfully to do a full system
reinstall over the netwrok. It does preserve resource forks and all that
stuff. If you're not sure what versyion you have just type "rsync
--version" without the quotes and you'll see something that should say
Rsync 2.5.5
HFS+ support by Kevin A. Boyd
and list the creators of the original software. This version will support
resource forks.
-Tito

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> From: "brad" <blynch@Newpi.com>
> To: <rsync@lists.samba.org>
> Subject: RSYNC/FreeBSD/Macintosh files...
> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:41:03 -0500
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> recently found out that rsync does not preserve resource forks, or creator
> types and maybe some other things. But, has anybody had any experience like
> this, would tar'ing the files and then rsync'ing that seem a
worthwhile
> solution. There's a lot, so testing is going slowly. Thanks!