rsync - Nov 2006 - Migrate Mac data from G4 to Novell Linux (SuSE) cluster on a SAN

We are currently in a server consolidation.

 

We are trying to move all the Macintosh data from a G4 server to a Novell
Linux Cluster.

 

We have used Rsync to mirror the data from the Mac Server to the SAN that
the Novell Linux Cluster it is using.

 

We found that special attributes and characters did not sync.

 

When trying another Rsync with the Novell SAN volume mounted on the Mac
server, it gives different errors, stating file name too long or protocol
incompatibility.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Chris Solverson

 

 

Chris Solverson

Systems Administrator

Delta Faucet Company

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On 11/27/06, Solverson, Chris <CAS5@deltafaucet.com>
wrote:
> We are trying to move all the Macintosh data from a G4 server to a Novell
> Linux Cluster.
>
> We have used Rsync to mirror the data from the Mac Server to the SAN that
> the Novell Linux Cluster it is using.
>
> We found that special attributes
Next time rsync does something wrong, please send us the actual error
messages so we have some hope of figuring out what is causing the
problem!  I can only guess:

If you want to back up special Mac attributes, you need either Apple's
customized version of rsync (which will save the attributes to ._*
AppleDouble files on the destination) or a very new version of rsync
with extended attribute support (which will save the attributes to
Linux extended attributes on the destination).  Wayne, please correct
me if I am mistaken.
> and characters did not sync.
If special characters in filenames did not sync due to a difference in
character sets, you might try iconv.diff, an experimental patch that
adds support to rsync for converting filenames between character sets.
 It is available here:
    http://www.opencoder.net/iconv.diff
For more information, try:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=rsync+iconv+site%3Asamba.org
> When trying another Rsync with the Novell SAN volume mounted on the Mac
> server, it gives different errors, stating file name too long or protocol
> incompatibility.
I have no idea what is going on here without seeing the actual error messages.

Good luck!

Matt