Backing up resource forks

alex conway seton.uk at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 13:06:35 MST 2011


THATS GREAT.

ALL I NEED NOW IS CREDIT DEBIT DETAILS TO PROVE YOUR I.D

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:13 PM, David Allie <david.allie at usa.net> wrote:

> Mike, thanks for the clarification and for updating your instructions.
>
> -- David
>
> *On Mar 11, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Mike Bombich wrote:*
> FWIW, I updated http://www.bombich.com/rsync.html just recently with a
> minor bug fix to my HFS+ compression patch (preserving resource forks when
> --fileflags was not used).
>
> (And I do not work for Apple :-)
>
> Mike
>
> On Mar 11, 2011, at 9:34 AM, David Allie wrote:
>
> Check out rsync.samba.org and download/compile version 3.0.7. Very stable,
> I've been downloading/compiling my own rsync from here for several years and
> have not encountered any problems.
>
> If you're interested and would like the download/compile steps, let me
> know. Mike Bombich (CCC, Apple) used to have it posted on his site, but I
> have the steps in a script I use. You obviously need to have xCode installed
> on your Mac.
>
> -- David Allie
>
>
> On Mar 11, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Y z <yankel at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A little research showed me that rsync (2.6.9) for Mac supports the -E
>> option, which is supposed to back up the resource forks, too.
>>
>
> That is an option that apple added, but it is not implemented very well and
> is not compatible with non-apple rsyncs.  You should compile a standard
> rsync version on your mac.  Some of the various code repos for macs have
> good auto-build rules for this.
>
> ..wayne..
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