Re: rsync Digest, Vol 111, Issue 20

2012-03-25 Thread Yves Petronin
Many years ago, on OSX 10.4 I was faced with the slow update of hte Finder data. I was working on a script that worked in fact, but apparently did not because of the delay. The solution that someone suggested to me was : osascript -e 'tell application Finder to update folder (path to

Spotlight comments (extended attributes) are not synced

2012-03-25 Thread Yves Petronin
Many years ago, on OSX 10.4 I was faced with the slow update of some Finder attributes. I was working on a script that worked in fact, but apparently did not consistently because of the delay, a very annoying problem tht it took time to identify. The solution that someone suggested to me

installing rsync-3-0-5 on a Mac

2009-02-25 Thread Yves Petronin
You could folllow the detailed instructions from Mike Bombich at http://www.bombich.com/mactips/rsync.html I am a beginner and the instructions are so clear that I was able to get the job done. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or

Macintosh rsync: Inconsistent Behaviour: Hints Appreciated

2009-02-13 Thread Yves Petronin
I have also used Mike Bombich' very clear instructions foud at http://www.bombich.com/mactips/rsync.html in order to compile the folllowing version of rsync on OS10.4.11: rsync version 3.0.4 protocol version 30 I could not easily however find the associated manual to better understand

v3.0.4 OS X Execution Errors

2008-11-08 Thread Yves Petronin
I was interested by this compilation on OSX 10.4. I followed the same Bombich instructions, and I thought I was successful, since I have found the following in the /usr/local/bin directory with today's date: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 1011412 Nov 8 14:46 rsync Hovever when I perform the

v3.0.4 OS X Execution Errors

2008-11-08 Thread Yves Petronin
Thanks The strange thing is that the manual indicates that the command -- rsync-path= is related to the program to be run on the remote machine. In my case there is no remote machine, since I experiment with backing up on one local disk I used to use a relatively simple

How to escape spaces in rsync source and destination paths

2008-08-22 Thread Yves PETRONIN
On OSX 10.4.11 , I am using this for instance and it seem there is not problem with spaces in file names of Volume names. I did have problems originally, but after addig double quotes everywhere it worked fine. folderSourceToBackup=/Users/ VOLUMES=/Volumes/