We currently do backup using rsync amongst Linux and Solaris machines. Modulo an ACL issue that we had to patch, this is working extremely well. But I want to add our OSX machines to the mix. This is, unfortunately, leaving me confused about rsyncx. I can do the normal thing from OSX using rsync. But the page for rsyncx says - cryptically, in my ignorant opinion - that rsyncx adds support for HFS+. Is this important? More, does it make a difference if the target of the backup is not OSX but Linux (and is therefore not running either rsyncx or HFS+)? If I'm backing up an OSX machine running rsync to a Linux machine, am I missing something that will prevent successful/complete restores? Is this solved by backing up from OSX running rsyncx to a Linux machine running rsync? Or can this only be solved by using OSX as the backup target (which isn't terribly likely in my current environment)? Thanks for any insight into this... Andrew
We currently do backup using rsync amongst Linux and Solaris machines. Modulo an ACL issue that we had to patch, this is working extremely well. But I want to add our OSX machines to the mix. This is, unfortunately, leaving me confused about rsyncx. I can do the normal thing from OSX using rsync. But the page for rsyncx says - cryptically, in my ignorant opinion - that rsyncx adds support for HFS+. Is this important? More, does it make a difference if the target of the backup is not OSX but Linux (and is therefore not running either rsyncx or HFS+)? If I'm backing up an OSX machine running rsync to a Linux machine, am I missing something that will prevent successful/complete restores? Is this solved by backing up from OSX running rsyncx to a Linux machine running rsync? Or can this only be solved by using OSX as the backup target (which isn't terribly likely in my current environment)? Thanks for any insight into this... Andrew -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
rsyncX is mac-to-mac only. Check out this page: http://www.quesera.com/reynhout/misc/rsync+hfsmode/ which should do pretty much what you want. On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 08:23:38PM -0400, Andrew Gideon wrote:> > We currently do backup using rsync amongst Linux and Solaris machines. > Modulo an ACL issue that we had to patch, this is working extremely well. > > But I want to add our OSX machines to the mix. This is, unfortunately, > leaving me confused about rsyncx. > > I can do the normal thing from OSX using rsync. But the page for rsyncx > says - cryptically, in my ignorant opinion - that rsyncx adds support for > HFS+. > > Is this important? More, does it make a difference if the target of the > backup is not OSX but Linux (and is therefore not running either rsyncx or > HFS+)? > > If I'm backing up an OSX machine running rsync to a Linux machine, am I > missing something that will prevent successful/complete restores? Is this > solved by backing up from OSX running rsyncx to a Linux machine running > rsync? Or can this only be solved by using OSX as the backup target (which > isn't terribly likely in my current environment)? > > Thanks for any insight into this... > > Andrew > > -- > To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htmldanno -- dan pritts - systems administrator - internet2 734/352-4953 office 734/834-7224 mobile