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If you like... I submitted this hint because I use rsync myself for daily backups. The default rsync 2.6.9 under 10.5.8 would mostly work well for my purposes without the -E (extended attributes) option: changed files would be backed-up correctly, though details like custom icons (and some other Finder specific attributes) would not be retained. I tried including the -E option to try and catch those attributes as well (to fix a small but irritating problem I ran across restoring a deleted file), but I found that files with resource forks would always be backed-up without regard to whether they had been changed, and the backups would have new modification dates reflecting the backup time rather than the time they were modified on the main disk. In test cases this would happen consistently, even after a few moments, not after large separations in time.
And no, I wasn't using a particularly tricky rsync setup: just rsync -aEq ... to a local storage disk. rsync 3.x handles files with resource forks without that particular issue. If you don't care about resource forks, or don't care about modification times, then the default rsync 2.6.9 should be perfectly adequate for your needs.
Hint may be wrong
I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to add some things for posterity. |
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