Re: Simple whole volume copy

2010-05-27 Thread Henri Shustak
Sorry, I'm only going to be doing this a single time. I don't really need a script, just a simple command I urge to to read this great write up Cloning Mac OS X disks by Mike Bombich : http://www.bombich.com/mactips/image.html If you have access to a test computer system running Mac OS

Re: Simple whole volume copy

2010-05-27 Thread Henri Shustak
Sorry, I'm only going to be doing this a single time. I don't really need a script, just a simple command which will preserve all the flags. Also, another question, what kind of data is on this volume that you are backing up? -- This email is protected by

Simple whole volume copy

2010-05-26 Thread J. Ellis
I have a volume at 192.168.0.2 on my local network. I'd like to rsync the entire volume to a backup volume, skip all files already present on the backup volume (same name and the same or earlier timestamp), and include all flags, dates, etc. as applicable to Mac OS X 10.6.x. Can someone tell me

Simple whole volume copy

2010-05-26 Thread J. Ellis
I have a volume at 192.168.0.2 on my local network. I'd like to rsync the entire volume to a backup volume, skip all files already present on the backup volume (same name and the same or earlier timestamp), and include all flags, dates, etc. as applicable to Mac OS X 10.6.x. Can someone tell me

Re: Simple whole volume copy

2010-05-26 Thread Henri Shustak
I have a volume at 192.168.0.2 on my local network. I'd like to rsync the entire volume to a backup volume, skip all files already present on the backup volume (same name and the same or earlier timestamp) Firstly, I would recommend that on both machines you compile and install a copy of the

Re: Simple whole volume copy

2010-05-26 Thread Henri Shustak
same name and the same or earlier timestamp Would you please provide some clarification on your desired result in the following situation. file_a : /Volumes/src/file.txt file_b : /Volumes/dst/file.txt If file_b has a newer modification time than file_a will you want file_a to overweight

Re: Simple whole volume copy

2010-05-26 Thread J. Ellis
Right. on 5/26/10 9:00 PM, Henri Shustak at henri.shus...@gmail.com wrote: same name and the same or earlier timestamp Would you please provide some clarification on your desired result in the following situation. file_a : /Volumes/src/file.txt file_b : /Volumes/dst/file.txt If

Re: Simple whole volume copy

2010-05-26 Thread J. Ellis
Firstly, I would recommend that on both machines you compile and install a copy of the latest version of rsync with some Mac OS X specific patches the link below will assist you : http://www.lbackup.org/developer/rsync_hfs My client is at 3.0.7. Although, I have to specify the directory as

Re: Simple whole volume copy

2010-05-26 Thread Henri Shustak
Right. That's why I need rsync. I'm really not looking for a utility, but a command line program which will do incremental backup, and rsync is the only one I'm aware of that does that in Mac OS. There are also some other options available. Although, I have not tested them on Mac OS X 10.6.

Re: Simple whole volume copy

2010-05-26 Thread Jeffrey Ellis
Sorry, I'm only going to be doing this a single time. I don't really need a script, just a simple command which will preserve all the flags. Best, J. On May 27, 2010, at 12:33 AM, Henri Shustak henri.shus...@gmail.com wrote: Right. That's why I need rsync. I'm really not looking for a