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Subject: Re: backups on a budget advice
From: David Haines <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:49:45 -0500
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On Nov 30, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Ski Kacoroski wrote:

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:56:33 -0500 David Haines <email@hidden> wrote:

Ok, for Mac OS X clients the above means you'll be relying on rsync
by the looks of things. And if you care about "extended attributes"
you'll need a matching version on the Linux box,
which is not push-button easy. I say "extended attributes" because
rsync and files on a Mac is a lengthy discussion you can find in the
archives here.


David,

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.

On Nov 30, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Karl Kuehn wrote:

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).

Hi all - while I'm not the OP here, I'll investigate xtar though I thought that was Helios and at one point their (albeit free) download was completely non-functional and I left it at that point.

xar sounds interesting

As for rsync , the official version "works" (see the provided instructions for extended attribute support) - in that you can prserve (some) extended attributes but not Mac OS X ACLs - I worked with it briefly. In Mac OS X you have to apply both the acl and xattr patches, but compile it *without* acl support (the patch is for Linux acls, a totally different beast). _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Macos-x-server mailing list (email@hidden) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/macos-x-server/email@hidden

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