http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2005/04/backing-up-with-rsync-on-osx/ A blog on entrepreneurship, user experience, and web innovation. Published by Fred Oliveira. Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:19:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2005/04/backing-up-with-rsync-on-osx/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Kenny Wed, 11 May 2005 13:40:44 +0000 http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2005/04/backing-up-with-rsync-on-osx/#comment-9 Looks like it works on Tiger but you need to use the -E flag to make sure it copies resource forks (or alias rsynch in your .profile to do this automatically). Looks like it works on Tiger but you need to use the -E flag to make sure it copies resource forks (or alias rsynch in your .profile to do this automatically).

]]> http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2005/04/backing-up-with-rsync-on-osx/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Benjamin Sat, 23 Apr 2005 20:18:25 +0000 http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2005/04/backing-up-with-rsync-on-osx/#comment-8 The last time I tried doing this (on Panther), I ran into one hell of a bug when I tried to restore: rsync doesn't do resource forks. I lost eight disk images, a ton of fonts, and quite a few documents that way. I know that Apple has modified several standard Unix commands on Tiger to handle resource forks (among them scp, cp, mv, and a few others), but I don't know whether rsync is one of them. You probably should check that before relying too much on an rsync backup. The last time I tried doing this (on Panther), I ran into one hell of a bug when I tried to restore: rsync doesn’t do resource forks. I lost eight disk images, a ton of fonts, and quite a few documents that way. I know that Apple has modified several standard Unix commands on Tiger to handle resource forks (among them scp, cp, mv, and a few others), but I don’t know whether rsync is one of them. You probably should check that before relying too much on an rsync backup.

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