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Authored by: roncross@cox.net on May 18, '04 02:56:25AM

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.

It seems that for unix configuration, system and dot files, this script maybe the way to go. But for HFS+ file system and some older Mac application files backup.app from apple is the way to go.

Apple has been aware of this problem for a long time now and are looking for solutions to fix it.

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rlc



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Authored by: pmccann on May 18, '04 11:26:48PM

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.

Paul



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Authored by: sjk on May 19, '04 01:04:05AM

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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