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I came to OS X from Unix, and resource forks are the only difference from unix file systems I was aware of. The article you linked to is very good -- thanks for that insight.
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It seems, though, that RsyncX actually isn't the tool of choice if you want to have reliable backups that really back up everything there is.RsyncX may be a tool of choice when any information it doesn't preserve is irrelevant for your purposes and works reliably for what it does preserve. It's unreliable if problems occur because of insufficient requirements for specific backup/restore tasks. I'd like people to realize that certain backup/restore tools may give them a false sense of data integrity because of unexpected, undesirable results that aren't necessarily obvious. And I hope developers become more aware of those integrity issues and make their products less vulnerable to them. Ideally, OS X backup utilities would have a "guaranteed" standard of [meta]data preservation so most users wouldn't have to be concerned with any technical details to ensure reliability. |
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