On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 12:58 -0400, Gian Spicuzza wrote:> Our hard drive crashed and we restored a backup under Mac 10.3.9.
> Unfortunately we lost the executability of the files. The icons do not
> show up and we have to manually click "Open With" and choose
Word/Excel/etc.
>
> I have an old backup that has old data, but all of the executibility,
> permissions, and resource forks are still preserved. Is there anyway to
> transfer the executibility and extended attributed (-XE) but not the old
> data?
Note first that the standard rsync's -X works only on Mac OS 10.4 and
newer. If you need to copy resource forks on 10.3.9, you'll need an
rsync containing Vitorio Machado's patch from:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2008-February/020093.html
One rather silly way to copy extended attributes but not data is to use
the options --date-only --modify-window=1000000000 to make the "quick
check" always pass (so that data of existing destination files is not
modified) and --ignore-non-existing to avoid creating new files on the
destination. The --date-only option requires a copy of rsync with this
patch:
http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/patches/date-only.diff
Another approach would be to restore the old backup to another
filesystem using -XE and then restore the newer data (without -XE) on
top of that.
Matt
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