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Authored by: SOX on Oct 29, '03 12:51:02PM

I use Psync instead of Rsync or RsyncX (damn malloc errors!). pysnc seems to work more stably and is HFS resource fork aware.

The drawback with psync is that unlike rsync it wont work across the network to a remote computer. You have to mount the computer's drive and in that case you may run into problems with root squashing if you are trying to transfer root owned files.

Psync does have a cute way of dealing with files owned by users that dont exist on the remote machine. that can also used to workaround the root-squash issue. One of its options removes places all the ownership and priviledge info into a single file, and in restore mode psync will read this file and assign the ownership and priveledges.

the cpio trick works with psync just as it does with rsync. Psync is a tad slower than rsync which is slower than rdiff-backup, but in my experience the slow step in backups is the cpio step not the psync step.



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