pagani laurent <[email protected]> writes:
>> A very annoying problem is the following :
>> I used to launch a Rsync procedure in a .csh file towards an external HD via 
>> a crontab scheduler.

[email protected]:
> Hm, which rsync are you using?  The one Apple ships in /usr/bin is
> depressingly old.  I use one built from sources, no special modifications,
> and it works just fine for me.

I agree that the Apple one is depressingly old, but it sports the "-E"
flag, which (AFAIK) is not part of standard rsync, and which supposedly
deals with Apple "extented attributes". Would you happen to know if
modern open source handles these extended attributes well these days
(maybe in some other way?)? There is also a "--cache" flag that's
specific to Apple.

>From Apple's rsync man page:

       -E, --extended-attributes
              Apple specific option  to  copy  extended  attributes,  resource
              forks,  and  ACLs.   Requires at least Mac OS X 10.4 or suitably
              patched rsync.

       --cache
              Apple specific option to enable filesystem caching of rsync file
              i/o Otherwise fcntl(F_NOCACHE) is used to limit memory growth.

(Realising I'm turning this into an rsync discussion. I should probably
fork the thread ... :-|)

                                Best regards,
                                  /Liman
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