On Nov 30, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Ski Kacoroski wrote:
You can use xtar to get all the resource fork data with no problems.
I have been backing up over 1500 workstations (laptops and desktops)
for over 3 years with this solution (of course I have 8 backuppc
servers instead of one). Rsync will not work because there is no way
via rsync to backup the resource forks to a non-mac server.
If you are on 10.5, and are resigned to a grab-everything approach
like xtar, you might want to look into using 'xar' instead. This is
the new format that Apple is using for 10.5-and-above pkg's, and does
a better job grabbing everything in the filesystem (extended
attributes, resource forks, etc).
Actually, if you are willing to install things on the target
computers, you can probably use xar on the linux and 10.4 computers,
as it is open source. If you are decompressing on a computer that does
not support the extra features you just won't get them.
