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Hi, Which version of Mac OS X are you running? If you are on Mac OS 10.5.x then I can only suggest that you try either formating the drive to HFS + or creating a disk image with an HFS+ file system. If you are running Mac OS 10.4.x then ensure that that ACL support is enabled on the drive. The following URL contains information on how to check and enable ACL support :

Hi, I am getting "rsync warning: some files vanished before they could be transferred (code 24) at main.c(1039) [sender=3.0.6]" now frequently but while using rsync version 2.6, I used to get it rarely. Any idea would be helpful on why rsync 3.0.6 is throwing this warning frequently. Jignesh. -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed

I am guessing that you would like to use rsync to create a bootable backup. It may also be worth while spending some time looking at CloneZilla or even dd? Dd is a really great tool. You know a copy of the device is bit for bit. You can then use rsync to make incremental copies of these directories which regularly change. In this situation you can restore the machine and then

Firstly, if this the wrong place to ask this question or if this question is inappropriate then please accept my sincere apologies. I am seeking advice regarding the backup of an Windows XP machine. I have used rsync for years and believe it to be an absolutely amazing tool on *NIX systems. Recently, I was asked the following question, relating to the backup of Windows system : >

A nightly scripted rsync backup job is giving me this error WARNING: vm/escDebLenny14G-flat.vmdk failed verification -- update discarded (will try again). I've searched the web and I think probably the problem is the source file changed during the copy. However, I haven't seen any explanations for the "will try again" part. Does it try again immediately? If so, does a

Check that ACL's are enabled on the destination volume. Details on how to do this are available from the following URL : http://connect.homeunix.com/lbackup/doku.php?id=access_control_lists Hope this helps. > I am using rsync 3.0.3 to copy a remote RAID volume on one Xserve to > the > local RAID volume on an other Xserve. Both Xserves are running OS X > Server > 10.4.11.

Try adding a star at the end. eg : /home/bob/.mozilla/firefox/* If this is still not excluding as you expect then please let me know. On 16/04/2009, at 8:19 AM, Robert Parker wrote: > Reading and re-reading the man page has got me nowhere with this issue > and searching your site on '--exclude-from' got me to the same place. > > Here is the script I am using: >

> I agree with everyone else that it would be incredibly useful for rsync to > either adopt such behaviour by default (assuming always doing 'mkdir -p' isn't > harmful in any way), or have a tunable to enable it. I also agree the suggested behavior makes a lot of sense and I think it is a good idea. However, some deployments may rely upon the current behavior. As an