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A free perl/rsync backup script
Authored by: i5m on Apr 14, '04 04:31:52PM

I tried rsyncx awhile back and had problems with it hanging on certain files, it would then fill up a massive log file and take up all the space on my disk. Not good if it's backing up at night / at weekend when you are away.

I've had more success with psync which can be searched for on macosxhints



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A free perl/rsync backup script
Authored by: samaaron on Apr 14, '04 04:58:01PM

psync also deals with resource forks and data forks - which is a facility lacking in the vanilla unix command rsync



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A free perl/rsync backup script
Authored by: scrofa on Apr 23, '04 01:41:51PM

The commandline replacement for rsync installed with RsyncX has HFS+ and resource fork compatibility (assuming the RsyncX version of rsync has been installed onto both computers involved).

The other added benefit of the RsyncX replacement is that it can be invoked without superuser access. When trying to add Psync to my scripts it always needed SU access, thus making it useless for automatic backups (Though I do concede that I don't know that much about the commandline, so I could have been doing it wrong). rsync, on the other hand, doesn't need superuser access.

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