preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

Hello all, I'm new to the list, but have done quite a bit of researching before regarding the support of Mac OS X specific features (resource forks, extended attributes, ACLs, file creation & modification date). By reading the archives, I get the impression that the current version of rsy

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

Am 2008-01-18 um 20:56 schrieb David Miller: On Jan 18, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Moritz Heckscher wrote: Hello all, I'm new to the list, but have done quite a bit of researching before regarding the support of Mac OS X specific features (resource forks, extended attributes, ACLs, file creation &

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 17:14 +0100, Moritz Heckscher wrote: > Another problem I'm thinking about is that rsnapshot should be run on > the server to "pull" the backups over the network. One cannot run it > on the clients and "push" the data to the server over the network -- > which is what I'd

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

On Jan 18, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Moritz Heckscher wrote: Hello all, I'm new to the list, but have done quite a bit of researching before regarding the support of Mac OS X specific features (resource forks, extended attributes, ACLs, file creation & modification date). By reading the archives

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

Am 2008-01-19 um 03:11 schrieb Matt McCutchen: On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 17:14 +0100, Moritz Heckscher wrote: Another problem I'm thinking about is that rsnapshot should be run on the server to "pull" the backups over the network. One cannot run it on the clients and "push" the data to the server ov

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

Am 2008-01-19 um 01:37 schrieb Moritz Heckscher: 3) To help with the checking/comparing, someone else built a little tool. It not only creates a collection of test files but can also compare the original and transferred versions afterwards:

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

Am 2008-01-19 um 01:37 schrieb Moritz Heckscher: 3) To help with the checking/comparing, someone else built a little tool. It not only creates a collection of test files but can also compare the original and transferred versions afterwards:

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 04:39 +0100, Moritz Heckscher wrote: > Good news indeed (for me at least)! Having read this FAQ on the > rsnapshot page in an early stage, without having much background info > about rsync and rsnapshot myself, I thought it was best to abandon > the idea of pushed backu

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

Am 2008-01-19 um 05:31 schrieb Matt McCutchen: On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 05:12 +0100, Moritz Heckscher wrote: Using the following options for rsync: --archive --hard-links --acls --xattrs --executability --numeric-ids I get the following output from backup-bouncer: [...] Verifying:bs

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 05:12 +0100, Moritz Heckscher wrote: > Using the following options for rsync: > > --archive --hard-links --acls --xattrs --executability --numeric-ids > > I get the following output from backup-bouncer: [...] > Verifying:bsd-flags ... FAIL BSD flags are handled

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

On Jan 18, 2008, at 11:38 PM, Moritz Heckscher wrote: Am 2008-01-19 um 05:31 schrieb Matt McCutchen: On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 05:12 +0100, Moritz Heckscher wrote: Using the following options for rsync: --archive --hard-links --acls --xattrs --executability --numeric-ids I get the following o

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

The backup-bouncer tool looks very helpful. I tried testing my own backup solution (see http://shoup.net/xattr ) with backup-bouncer. It did fine -- it preserves everything on cross-platform backups, except for those things it was not designed to: ACLs (I don't know much about these) and BSD

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

With rsync 3 pre8 and Mac OS 10.5.1: bash-3.2# patch -p1 bash-3.2# ~/rsync-3.0.0pre8/rsync -aHAX --fileflags /Volumes/Source/ / Volumes/Target/ bash-3.2# bbouncer verify -d /Volumes/Source /Volumes/Target Verifying:basic-permissions ... ok Verifying: timestamps ... Sub-test:

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

Hi All, I ran the bouncer tests too and came up with same results except the "fifo" and "devices" failed. I ran it from command line as well as from "do shell script" command with same results. I used the same patches. Nevertheless, I am thrilled with the results here for OSX and can't th

--no-tweak-hlinked patch [preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores]

Am 2008-01-19 um 04:39 schrieb Moritz Heckscher: Your suggestion does indeed take care of the "doubled disk space" issue nicely. It's only really possible with your very recent patch regarding the --no-tweak-hlinked option, so maybe now this FAQ entry could be update with the above link to y