rsync - Mar 2011 - Backing up resource forks

So, I backed up a Mac OS X workstation that crashed, and learned the hard way
that OS X uses things ( particularly for fonts, it seems) known as 'resource
forks', which don't get backed up with normal tools. Ouch.

A little research showed me that rsync (2.6.9) for Mac supports the -E option,
which is supposed to back up the resource forks, too. But when I rsync over to a
Ubuntu Lucid server (3.0.7), I get an error:

rsync: on remote machine: --extended-attributes: unknown option

Am I stuck, or is there something obvious that I'm missing?

Thanks!

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Y z <yankel at hotmail.com> wrote:
> A little research showed me that rsync (2.6.9) for Mac supports the -E
> option, which is supposed to back up the resource forks, too.
>
That is an option that apple added, but it is not implemented very well and
is not compatible with non-apple rsyncs.  You should compile a standard
rsync version on your mac.  Some of the various code repos for macs have
good auto-build rules for this.

..wayne..
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