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rsync still doesn't work
Authored by: jk806 on May 18, '04 11:45:45PM

I did as you mentioned, adding the /, same result. New inodes. It makes a backup just fine, but not using links.

As I mentioned, I tried using rsync several times using link-dest, and could not get it to create the tree using links no matter which way I ran it.

I like rsync and use it regularly, but for this purpose, it doesn't seem to work.

In any case, shadowmirror does what's needed, on a stock OS X system (or any other unix system) without additional software. It does just as well at syncing as rsync for these purposes, and does it faster than rsync. Over 7x faster consistently in my tests, most likely due to the fact that rsync does more tests than simple inode comparisons and, of course, creating links is a lot faster than copying data.

For me, I'll use shadowmirror since I know it works, and don't want to spend any more time trying to figure out why rsync won't.



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sweet.
Authored by: DanPritchard on May 19, '04 02:04:02PM

I think that is a very cool script. Nice job. Very elegant--exploiting the fact that deleting a file doesn't really delete the file. I love it.



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