Re: Rsync reliability?
Re: Rsync reliability?
- Subject: Re: Rsync reliability?
- From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:56:42 -0600
- Thread-topic: Rsync reliability?
> Have you checked out rsyncx.. I dont really know if its better but I
> have had no problems and use it now exclusively instead of Carbon
> copy cloner. Rsyncx maintains resource forks etc that are mac specific.
ryncx is essentially obsolete. The "extended attributes" option of the rsync
included in Tiger accomplishes the same resource fork handling.
rsyncx was also a graphical front end for the rsync command line, however
the installer also installed a patch for the Mac resource fork handling. It
was a messy affair, unreliable and problematic to update the patch.
There was pretty groovy feature of the rsyncx GUI where it would remember
any number of commands. That was the best part about it.
I've written a script to assemble an rsync command and execute it in
Terminal. Works in 10.4 and later. This script works on any mounted disk
including a writable diskimage. Works on DOS filesystems too, copying Mac
resource forks.
It is designed to remember source and target folder unless it errors, at
which time you can choose different parameters which it will then remember.
You can use it for quick backup of one folder to a folder on a mounted disk.
Copies incrementally, so unchanged files are ignored. Executes in Terminal,
leaving a readout of copied files. This script DELETES FILES on the target
folder that are nonexistent on the source folder, so watch out!
Or you can make it output different command lines for several backup
operations, then recycle the command using shell scripts or whatever.
<http://Gnarlodious.com/Apple/AppleScript/Scripts/BackupToEjectableDisk.html
>
As always, bug reports welcome.
-- Gnarlie
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