I noticed while looking at the rdiff-backup docs [1] that it claims to be able to backup resource forks and other Mac OS X metadata [2] to a traditional unix filesystem. This would extraordinarily handy for me. This seems to be accomplished by use of this python xattr library [3] (rdiff-backup is written in python) which supports the OS X (10.4 and later) filesystem extended attributes [4].
The analogous Perl library seems to be File::ExtAttr [5]. Can BackupPC be made to support backups of extended attributes such that resource forks and other extattrs can be placed on a different filesystem, say UFS2 (FreeBSD), and later restored to an HFS+ filesystem? [1] http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html#OSX [2] http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10-4.ars/7 [3] http://undefined.org/python/#xattr http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2005/10/08/xattr-python-extended-filesystem-attributes/ [4] http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/listxattr.2.html#//apple_ref/doc/man/2/listxattr [5] http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-ExtAttr/lib/File/ExtAttr.pm -- Gregory S. Sutter Fighting ignorance since 1975! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (It's taking longer than I thought.) http://zer0.org/~gsutter/
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