Re: crontab and rsync in Sierra Era
Re: crontab and rsync in Sierra Era
- Subject: Re: crontab and rsync in Sierra Era
- From: Lars-Johan Liman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:55:22 +0100
pagani laurent <email@hidden> writes:
>> A very annoying problem is the following :
>> I used to launch a Rsync procedure in a .csh file towards an external HD via a crontab scheduler.
email@hidden:
> Hm, which rsync are you using? The one Apple ships in /usr/bin is
> depressingly old. I use one built from sources, no special modifications,
> and it works just fine for me.
I agree that the Apple one is depressingly old, but it sports the "-E"
flag, which (AFAIK) is not part of standard rsync, and which supposedly
deals with Apple "extented attributes". Would you happen to know if
modern open source handles these extended attributes well these days
(maybe in some other way?)? There is also a "--cache" flag that's
specific to Apple.
From Apple's rsync man page:
-E, --extended-attributes
Apple specific option to copy extended attributes, resource
forks, and ACLs. Requires at least Mac OS X 10.4 or suitably
patched rsync.
--cache
Apple specific option to enable filesystem caching of rsync file
i/o Otherwise fcntl(F_NOCACHE) is used to limit memory growth.
(Realising I'm turning this into an rsync discussion. I should probably
fork the thread ... :-|)
Best regards,
/Liman
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