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Looking for MacOSX Rsync/Rsnapshot User/Expert

Ken Causey-3
Marcus Denker is trying to help us out by backing up the community
server on a server to which he has access.  This happens to be a MacOSX
server.  We are using rsync/rsnapshot but having some trouble.  If you
have experience with rsync or rsnapshot on MacOSX I would appreciate the
opportunity to speak with you.

Ken



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Re: Looking for MacOSX Rsync/Rsnapshot User/Expert

Martial Boniou
Hi Ken,

I'm not an expert in file systems science but it seems that the HFS+ is
a big problem with the standard rsync command. I don't use OSX server
anymore but with OSX tiger, I only use a proprietary solution named
superduper as I never found a good free command to make good copies
between my hard disks.

For a specific rsync solution, I got this program here:
http://hondana.net/Resources/Binary/OSX/

RsyncX is a hack but it works very well. My personal data centers are on
XFS I manage through Linux. I only use HFS+ for my client computer. If
your admin (markus I mean) need a command line program, the rsyncx
command is inside the .app bundle (NeXT reminiscence).

I don't know if the original OSX file systems named UFS would be a
better solution for servers but the lack of fs tools on OSX is very
annoying.

I hope this will help,

Cheers

--
Martial



Ken Causey a écrit :
| Marcus Denker is trying to help us out by backing up the community
| server on a server to which he has access.  This happens to be a MacOSX
| server.  We are using rsync/rsnapshot but having some trouble.  If you
| have experience with rsync or rsnapshot on MacOSX I would appreciate the
| opportunity to speak with you.
|
| Ken
|



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Re: Looking for MacOSX Rsync/Rsnapshot User/Expert

Ken Causey-3
Thanks for the info!  I'll make sure Marcus sees this.

Ken

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 11:41 +0200, Martial Boniou wrote:

> Hi Ken,
>
> I'm not an expert in file systems science but it seems that the HFS+ is
> a big problem with the standard rsync command. I don't use OSX server
> anymore but with OSX tiger, I only use a proprietary solution named
> superduper as I never found a good free command to make good copies
> between my hard disks.
>
> For a specific rsync solution, I got this program here:
> http://hondana.net/Resources/Binary/OSX/
>
> RsyncX is a hack but it works very well. My personal data centers are on
> XFS I manage through Linux. I only use HFS+ for my client computer. If
> your admin (markus I mean) need a command line program, the rsyncx
> command is inside the .app bundle (NeXT reminiscence).
>
> I don't know if the original OSX file systems named UFS would be a
> better solution for servers but the lack of fs tools on OSX is very
> annoying.
>
> I hope this will help,
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Martial
>
>
>
> Ken Causey a écrit :
> | Marcus Denker is trying to help us out by backing up the community
> | server on a server to which he has access.  This happens to be a MacOSX
> | server.  We are using rsync/rsnapshot but having some trouble.  If you
> | have experience with rsync or rsnapshot on MacOSX I would appreciate the
> | opportunity to speak with you.
> |
> | Ken
> |
>
>
>
> |
>
>
>
>



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