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...; osx from src. on osx, it's v2.6.3 w/ both apple's "Extended Attributes" patches: http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4.8.ppc/rsync-24/patches/EA.diff http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4.8.ppc/rsync-24/patches/PR-3945747-endian.diff and the 'lartmaker' fix (iteself, slightly fixed ...): wget http://www.lartmaker.nl/rsync/rsync-tiger-fixes.diff applied. these patches don't currently apply as-is to rsync v2.6.9. using the patched bins, mac-to-mac -- or more correctly, hfs+-to-hfs+ -- rsync seems to correctly preserve file attributes....

[Now the horse has left the barn, I decided to finally implement that backup system I'd been thinking about for ages. Disk crashes can be great motivators] [Web-location for the living version of this document: http://www.lartmaker.nl/rsync/] Goal: Producing a working network backup / cloning system for Mac OS X systems. The system can be used for local backups as well, for example to FireWire disks. Problems: Many files on HFS+, the Mac's most common file system, have metadata. This is partly a leftover from the...

Hi, This is my first post to this list. I have been backing up some files with rsync from My Mac OS X 10.4.7 machine, which uses HFS+ filesystem to a FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE machine, which uses UFS2 filesystem. They go across a 100-base-T lan, which has little or no traffic on it. On my Mac, I mount the nfs exported volume on the FreeBSD machine with: $ mount -t nfs moe:/backup

hi, it seems there's a more-recent solution, referenced here: http://www.lartmaker.nl/rsync/ that points out: "Since OS X 10.4 (aka Tiger) the MacOS ships with a modified version of rsync. An added option, -E, enables the transfer of extended attributes." exploring, the current apple patches @: http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4.8.ppc/rsync-24/...