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Fully automated backup of Flash drives on mount
The one change i would make to the scripts would be to NOT use the built in rsync.
the built in rsync in OS X (any version so far) is definitely the UNIX version of rsync. rsync therefore knows nothing of resource and data forks. You would be surprised at the number of files on your computer that still use them. i was ended up with PDFs of file length zero until i figured it out. Download RsyncX from some place like versiontracker.com or macupdate.com, and specify the path to the version of rsync that is installed by it. usually /usr/local/bin/rsync here is the output of rsync with HFS+ support $ rsync --version rsync version 2.6.0 protocol version 27 Copyright (C) 1996-2004 by Andrew Tridgell and others HFS+ filesystem support for OSX (C)2004 Kevin A. Boyd <http://rsync.samba.org/> Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, IPv6, 32-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the GNU General Public Licence for details. this version of rsync supports another option '-eahfs' that is ONE option, not 5. i am guessing it stands for Extended Attributes HFS, but whatever it stands for, it understands data/resource forked files. Using it has made my life much much nicer.
Fully automated backup of Flash drives on mount
i thought as of 10.4.6 or so, apple's rsync worked with resource forks?
see http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/05/the-state-of-backup-and-cloning-tools-under-mac-os-x/ i'm not positive since i still use rsyncX myself.
Fully automated backup of Flash drives on mount
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