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...in the near future on OSX, so more as an experiment, I developed a few lines of C code that do what I want, using an HFS+ formatted partition. The idea and the code are fairly simple, so it should bee very simple to debug and maintain. If you are interested in the details, see http://www.shoup.net/apple_double/README and if you want to download the source, go to http://www.shoup.net/apple_double/apple_double.tar As I said, right now, it is an experiment. It needs more testing. Any feedback is appreciated. -- Victor Shoup

Is this a known issue? rsync does not always preserve dates and permissions on symbolic links, and while the -i option indicates it is trying to bring things in sync, it does not. Maybe between OS's that have sufficiently different implementations, this is not possible.

...website that I find useful, and that others may find useful as well. It provides tools that allow one to access and manipulate OSX metadata, and in particular, to backup (and restore) this metadata to a non-OSX, unix machine (using rsync, of course). If you're interested, go to http://www.shoup.net and follow the link to "Macintosh Metadata Madness". Cheers, Victor Shoup

Hi, I'd like to make a "feature request" for users of rsync on Mac OSX Tiger (10.4) Given the current sorry state of backup tools on Mac OSX, the only way I've found to reliably backup data from Mac OSX is to keep the data on a UFS volume, and to then backup it up using *standard* rsync (no -E) to a Unix file server. This way, all the the "apple double" are

Are there any known issues compiling the latest rsync on OSX (10.4)? I've noticed some references to one or two patches, but I'm not sure what they are. I compiled v2.6.8 some time back on a powerpc, with no patches, and it seemed to work OK. I saw nothing in the INSTALL file that suggests a patch is necessary. Thanks for any pointers. -- Victor

Hi Am noticing smbd processes are running as root and occassionally I see a child process as userid Just curios under what circumstances the smbd runs as user id process ( unix id ) and running as root is a security risk? Thanks in advance -Abdul

I see that rsync will eventually support extended attributes, which will be great. But: will it allow backup from a file system that supports xattrs, to one that does not? For this to work, rsync would have to represent the xattrs on the destination machine in some special format, I suppose, which is outside the usual rsync mode of operation. Moreover, even if both machines support

Hi, I'm using rsync to copy and sync a directory of about 25,000 files across two machines. I used rsync to make an initial copy, from machine 1 to machine 2, and then syncing back incremental changes from machine 2 to machine 1. On the initial copy from machione 1 to machine 2, I found that a number of files failed to copy, but that they were copied on a second try. There were no warnings