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This is just the sort of job that something like rsyncx will excel at. If you use the latest version of rsyncx you can easily set up a rotating set of backups (rolling through, say, the seven days of the week), with the following noteworthy feature: the common files among the rolling backups are hard links. That is, the data is only stored once, but you still have seven different "live" copies of your home directory (or your whole drive if you so desire). So it's like an incremental in terms of the storage required, but to the user it's exactly as if there were seven independent copies available.
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The first priority in backing up files is about preserving critical information first. After that, you want to preserve file permission, ownership, and modification date. Unix script are not very good at doing this for HFS+ file system and older Mac application files.
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Umm, I'm not sure how this relates to the parent comment (of mine): rsyncx is *perfectly* aware of all the hfs+ stuff, and permissions, and resource forks etc etc, and is orders of magnitude more flexible than the backup software apple distributes.
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Anyone know whether or not rsyncx preserves Finder info? AFAIK ditto is the only utility that comes with OS X that does. |
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