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We currently do backup using rsync amongst Linux and Solaris machines. Modulo an ACL issue that we had to patch, this is working extremely well. But I want to add our OSX machines to the mix. This is, unfortunately, leaving me confused about rsyncx. I can do the normal thing from OSX using rsync. But the page for rsyncx says - cryptically, in my ignorant opinion - that rsyncx adds support for HFS+. Is this important? More, does it make a difference if the target of the backup is not OSX but Linux (and is therefore not running either rsync...

I am attempting to backup the Users directory on my desktop running OS X 10.3.6. I am backing up to Jaguar Server 10.2.8. I am using RsyncX version 2.1 on both systems. RsyncX Server is set up to run on both systems however in this instance the Rsync client is my desktop and server is Panther Server. When I kick off an RsyncX session, RsyncX will run for a while, then stop part of the way through, never completing. There does not...

...page to make it easier for people to write to it. Did you have any other suggestions about how to make it better? The reason we took Jitterbug and faq-o-matic 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...

hi will the official rsync version in future maybe support HFS(+) filesystem, like rsyncx does right now? i ask because the rsyncx version dosen't run on my linuxbox and the feature is only supported if all systems use rsyncx. regards sam

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?

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'm getting a "bad address" error which is causing my rsync process to bomb out. I'm running RsyncX 2.1, in daemon mode on the source machine, with a script to pull the information to the backup server. Both servers are Xserves running OS X Server 10.2.8. Rsync target is on an Xserve RAID. The RAID has 350GB free, so I'm not running into a disk full situation. My command looks like: /usr...

...disk clone. Although I haven't stress-tested the system, all looked well (I could open Photoshop and iTunes with no problems). A similar procedure should work to an external disk attached to the source computer, although I haven't tested that configuration. So why didn't I just use RsyncX ? Googling revealed some (perceived?) compatibility issues between RsyncX and Tiger. Besides, RsyncX only works between Macs, and I *really* want to use my 1.5TB RAID-5 Linux box as backup target. About the rsync -H option: there have been rumors of incompatibility with OSX. I'll have to f...

...X machine. I'm aware that there are some "issues" about rsync and certain file forks found on HFS+ filesystems, but I'm not sure that should be stopping me from accomplishing what I want to do. I'm using rsync 2.5.5 on both machines, but the OS X version appears to be the RsyncX version (It says "HFS+ filesystem support for OSX (C)2002 Kevin A. Boyd", but I have no recollection of having manually installed that version). I type in rsync -e ssh -avz /backup/ praxis:/Volumes/Poursoi/Client1 to use SSH, archive mode and compression. The contents of /backup/ are...

I have been trying to use rsyncx to generate a script for rotating backups but it seems to me that the --link-dest option doesn't work properly in my configuration. Instead of creating hard links for all unchanged files it seems that rsync copies everything, as if --link-dest hasn't been specificed. Can somebody clarify wh...

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

Hi, I tried using rsyncX which is a GUI front end for rsync and as it turns out, the installer downgraded the current version from version 2.6.3 protocol version 28 to version 2.6.6 protocol version 27. I would like to learn more about how to get a newer version of rsync installed. Where would be a good place for a...

...quot; ' also: # rsync -ax --showtogo --stats --exclude "/Volumes/" / /Volumes/System But I get a protocol error (broken pipe) in io.c. When copying all the subdirectories manually, everything works, so I think he tries toa void a cyclic copy. (I'm using rsync 2.5.5, or rather rsyncx 1.7d, a special version for Mac OS X. I've booted the computer from a FireWire harddisk, and I try to clone that boot partition to the local harddrive already having many of the files). If someone has made a local copy like this - with or without success - I'd be thankful for an answe...

...ing. After the sync operation quits, I don't see duplicate files anywhere. The disk is full, but the sizes of my directories are what they should be. I'm running Mac OS 10.4.8, and I've encountered the same behavior with the bundled version 2.6.3, the version 2.6.0 binary included with rsyncx, and the current version 2.6.9 that I downloaded and compiled today. Here's my rsync command: /usr/local/bin/rsync --progress -aEv --delete --recursive --exlude-from "/Users/compyschool/Library/Scripts/nightly restore - exclusions.txt" "/Volumes/Compy 1 master/" "/Volu...

Hi I am a rsync (on Mac OS X, RsyncX version with extended HFS+/-eahfs forks) beginner (I merely use it for backing up my desktop machine to a bootable external firewire volume, so that I can resume work in case of a harddrive disaster) and I got these messages: mknod "/Volumes/backup/Applications/Plone2/Sites/Default/var/zo...

...for example, ..... 1650 of 8345 files to copy and then later ....30 of 11345 files to copy and eventually down to ....1 of 18000 files to copy So I get the idea that rsync 3 is reading in "batches" or at least doesn't give the total # of files up front (like apple rsync or rsyncx does with a true % ) so you get what looks like an exaggerated fast beginning on the progress bar which then slows to a crawl as it nears the finish line. Is there any way to get progress to give a more overall picture. I tried --stats which didn't work at all and -v and of course --...

Hello, I am still ironing out the bugs in my rsync backup soloution. As I said earlier I have it working working initiating from the macs to the linux server, sortof. The sortof part is what I am trying to eliminate. 2 problems: first rsync seems to be filling up the disk on one of my client OSX machines. df showed a little over a gigabyte when i started the backup of the ~=30GB drive I had

...ad your posting from Jan 20th 2009 regarding the email from > Tim. I'm not sure if you have the time but I have 2 computers > running 10.3 right now that I would love to have rsync 3 running on. > > I'm running a mixed environment of 10.4 and 10.3 so right now I have > RsyncX installed on all the machines but it appears rsync 3 handles > things a bit better. > > If you have the time send me the 10.3 diff file and I can try > compling with 10.3. My programming is primarily in ancient C > development for back end processing so I'm a bit rusty. &g...

Well, I finagled a system up that works with Mac OS X and Rsync, I configured it in teh following steps: SSH Authentication key logs in without a password to the host machine jarmusch.

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