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...ic down is that people seemed to get help more promptly when they wrote to the list. > What I wanted most to do is ensure you know about rsyncx and consider working > with the authors to create a unified product that supports resource forks > when built on OSX. > > See http://www.macosxlabs.org./rsyncx/rsyncx.html > > Their CVS repository is at http://www.opendarwin.org > > It seems a shame to have two projects where one will do. Well, sometimes there are reasons not to glom everything into one big program. -- Martin

I have a feature request for rsync. I tried posting it to the FAQ-o-matic, but that system didn't seem to be accepting new questions. I hope this is an okay list for the request--apologies if it's misdirected. Mac OS X provides support for the Mac file system resource forks and mac specific metadata (e.g., creator and file type). Most Unix applications ignore this information, but it

I am wanting to rsync over mac files to a freebsd 4.5 box, but have recently found out that rsync does not preserve resource forks, or creator types and maybe some other things. But, has anybody had any experience like this, would tar'ing the files and then rsync'ing that seem a worthwhile solution. There's a lot, so testing is going slowly. Thanks! Brad Lynch Info Sys Coordinator

Hi all, I'm setting up a backup script for my Mac, and I'm wondering about the rsync ability of dealing with HFS+ filesystem (resource-fork and such...). I've searched the mailing list archive for this topic and I've found some thread regarding it, but it's not clear to me what is the actual situation. Is the HFS+ officially supported? Will it be in the near future?

Respected Sir I want to know whther rsync supports resource fork on mac os x. If it doesnt is there any alternative to handle resource fork while doing remote replication between mac and other platforms. Amol Gajewar SPSOFT TECH India