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A summary hint of rsync-related information
Authored by: bluehz on Jul 21, '03 01:29:38PM
I have tried for over a year to get a good clean backup with various incarnations of rsync (hfs-aware) and have never made a single, error-free backup. Call me a stickler, but as far as I am concerned - a backup is not a valid backup unless it completes without errors. I tried working with the rsync developers but they seemed less than receptive, indicating the problem was most definitely on my end and it worked perfectly every time on their machines. Still I try and try and try with rysnc... for functionality it has EVERYTHING I could possibly want in a backup routine. But at this point in time - its purely a toy I pull out every once in a while when I wanna toy with some shell scripting.

FWIW - I sent a hint in last week (has not made it to the boards yet) about an hfs aware version of tar that I was reading about on macintouch also (I think). Anyway - have not tried it out yet - but its on the table...

http://www.helios.de/news/news03/N_06_03.html

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A summary hint of rsync-related information
Authored by: escowles on Jul 21, '03 04:14:55PM

I've also been toying around with tar and rsync (and their hfs-aware counterparts) for a while, now. In the end, I don't want to use some forked version of rsync -- if it's stable, it should be merged into the main rsync tree, if it isn't, I'm not using it for my backups.

In the end, I decided to use vanilla rsync for my main (daily) backups, and live with losing resource forks. Most of my documents and other frequently-changing files don't need resource forks anyway. For the apps and system files that do need resource forks, I make backups to DVD-R monthly or so.

-Esme



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A summary hint of rsync-related information
Authored by: Brontojoris on Jul 21, '03 07:51:21PM
I run the following script as a cron job, and it has worked really well for me. Note that I mount the Multimedia share first, also via a cron job, first. The share is mounted using an internet shortcut, as this as proven the most reliable.
#! /bin/sh
# Run a weekly backup of the my websites using Psync
echo "Syncronising all of my website folders with the Multimedia server"
echo "A log of file operations can be found at: /Library/Logs/Psync.log"
/usr/local/bin/psync -d -v /Users/joris/Sites 
/Volumes/Multimedia/Archive/websites/Weekly > /Library/Logs/PsyncWeekly.log 
-- Put command above on one line --
echo "Copying files complete"
echo "Remove Dreamweaver file locks"
chflags -R nouchg /Volumes/Multimedia/Archive/websites/Weekly/
echo "Sync complete."


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A summary hint of rsync-related information
Authored by: whoadoggy on Jul 22, '03 05:27:46PM

If you don't mind could you also please include the command or script you are using to mount your network drive? I have been wanting to do this but not yet dug enough to find the answer. Also any comments on why the internet shortcut is most reliable? What else did you try?

Thanx,
whoadoggy



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A summary hint of rsync-related information
Authored by: Brontojoris on Jul 22, '03 07:23:37PM
To make a shortcut type the following url into your web browser (I'm using Safari):

afp://username:password@10.10.10.10/VolumeName

Then drag the url to the desktop, rename the shortcut (I renamed it to: "Multimedia File Server") and file away somewhere. Then in my Crontab I call:

/usr/bin/open "/Users/joris/Library/Favorites/Quick Connect/Multimedia File Server"

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A summary hint of rsync-related information
Authored by: krishna on Aug 31, '03 02:50:34AM

I've used Carbon Copy Cloner (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030529054605961) to make a verified bootable, (apparently) clean backup of my TiBook G4 MacOSX 10.2 boot drive to an external firewire drive.

I plan to use the external drive as my primary drive for a few weeks to verify that the backup is completely clean. I also plan to use CCC's psync integration to keep my laptop drive in sync with the external drive. I'd like to use rsync_hfs after the first CCC run (since it seems to be 20-30% faster than psync), but I expect to use this setup as a reliable backup mechanism once I verify that it's clean (at which point I'll fully vouch for CCC).



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