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A summary hint of rsync-related information
Authored by: SOX on Jul 21, '03 11:21:34AM

I've used to use RsyncX. In general rsync is a marvelous product. But I ran into a snag with it and stopped using it. the problem is that there is a maximum file count limit. I'm not quite sure what the limit is. but when I try using it on files systems with lots of files I always get malloc errors. unfortunately the while the program does print the error message it also does not abort and instead runs to completetion and returns. Thus when doing this automatically you will not know it failed unless you check your logs. <p>
for this reason I switched to psync. it is HFS aware too. psync is no where near as full featured as rsync but it has the most useful features. it does not work well unless you can mount the remote disk. and due to root squashing on mounted disks, moving root owner file is a problem. however it does not have the file count limitiation and has never failed to work for me.
<p> I've been thinking about switching to rdiff back but 1) I dont know if its hfs aware and 2) it may use rysnc under the hood. any tips?



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