On Oct 5, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Vaughan Roberts wrote:

> I have been using backuppc to backup win-boxes onto a Linux server  
> using cygwin rsync running on the win-boxes.  Now I am trying to use  
> backuppc on some Macs (OS X), but I am having difficulty get it to  
> work.

The setup and configuration is generally the same as on linux. What  
specifically are you having problems with?

> There have been some comments that rsync is not a good option for  
> the Mac due to its file system.  Is this still valid?
This is not still valid. The opinion circulated due tot the lack of  
extended attribute and resource fork support in older versions of  
rsync released with osx. This just meant that the data you got off a  
mac was as metadataless as that gained from any other linux or bsd  
machine.

If you were unconcerned about preserving meta data or resource forks,  
it was not an issue. (OS X has rarely, if ever uses resource forks  
anymore)

Rsync now handles these.

> Is anyone able to point me to a good source of information about  
> using backuppc with the Mac?
The backuppc documentation itself is quite good. If you get everything  
running, I have launchd.plists for daemonizing both backuppc and its  
httpd daemon.

-james
>
> On a second point, do the machine based config files in the pc  
> directory over-rule the config.pl file?  For example can I use rsync  
> on the win-boxes and tar for the Macs by specifying this in the  
> machine configuration files?
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