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Back up key files via rsync and ssh
Authored by: adrianm on Jul 01, '08 07:59:22AM

I've been doing this for a while (to dreamhost) and one thing I've noticed is that resource fork for file bla get written as .bla on the server (so dreamhost doesn't have to support metadata - good).

Unfortunately, these 'dot' files don't have a time stamp so rsync will copy it in its entirety each time. Not good if a file has a large resource fork, or if you have thousands of files.

I'm thinking of changing my rsync strategy to use a sparse bundle instead - backup to a sparse bundle and rsync the stripes.

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Back up key files via rsync and ssh
Authored by: Helge33 on Jul 01, '08 08:55:24AM

Yes I did the same observation, seems to be the only practicable option to accomplish Mac-like rsync sessions.

(Amusing to see a "hint" from an apparent fresh OSX User who has never done a google search on "rsync OSX"... ;-)



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Back up key files via rsync and ssh
Authored by: lucidsystems on Jul 21, '08 06:33:11PM

There are some notes and scripts to get this working

There are some notes and example scripts to do on the LBackup website.


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