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[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

Hey! I have been given the task to mirror our fileserver's filesystem onto a secondary machine for redundancy. The first thing that came to mind was rsync, but now I have few questions as I am far from an expert on this matter. Our file server is running Debian Stable. We use Samba for our Windows users and Netatalk (AFP) for our OS X clients. The filesystem used on the server is