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Install rdiff-backup for incremental backups
Authored by: xkalibur on Sep 28, '05 02:22:14PM

Maybe I'm missing something, but the version that DarwinPorts installed for me is 0.12.7, which does not have the features you all speak of (resource forks were added in 0.13.0 according to the changelog). So maybe using Fink is a better option (it's unstable package is at 1.0.x I believe). That's what I'm on to try tonight...



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Install rdiff-backup for incremental backups
Authored by: bumper314 on Oct 01, '05 11:37:04AM

Someone made a special patch for rdiff-backup to handle resource forks and whatnot prior to version 0.13.0. I'm pretty sure those were compiled into the DarwinPorts packages because I remember reading it somewhere...



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Install rdiff-backup for incremental backups
Authored by: bumper314 on Oct 01, '05 12:12:41PM

Actually, I just tested this with my DarwinPorts installed rdiff-backup, and NO, IT DOES NOT DO RESOURCE FORKS.

My test was to take a plain bob.html file, copy a new icon to it, verify that a resource fork existed (ls -l bob.html/rsrc), rdiff-backup it up, then restore to another location and the file did not contain the resource fork anymore....



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Install rdiff-backup for incremental backups
Authored by: bumper314 on Oct 01, '05 06:57:56PM

I tried the latest from fink (which turned out to be 0.13.6), but it fails to run with some cryptic errors. Oh well...



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