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Create incremental backups using an rsync shell script
Authored by: bwestmoreland on Mar 22, '07 08:11:51AM

There are numerous issues with RSync in Tiger that make it a non-ideal backup candidate. Support for extended attributes being chiefly among them. There have also been reported issues ACLs, so if you decide to implement this hint, then please be cautious and verify your backups very hard before relying on them to save you.



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Create incremental backups using an rsync shell script
Authored by: stsmith on Mar 22, '07 12:51:37PM
Heard about Tiger issues with rsync, at least up until 10.4.4. To the best of my knowledge, I have not experienced any of these difficulties with 10.4.8 or 10.4.9, but as with all backups, caveat emptor. There are patches to rsync 2.6.3 for the previously mentioned difficulties.

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