Chris,

Resource forks are where the Mac OS stores key information about a file. 
  For example if a word file does not have an extension such as .doc, 
then then Mac looks in the resource fork to figure out that it is a word 
file.  For older Mac programs, other items were stored in the resource fork.

Depending on your environment you may or may not need to back up 
resource forks.  If it is not a problem I would run xtar to assure that 
you get them just in case.  If this does not work, then definitely to a 
test restore of a complete user directory as we have had one case where 
the majority of the user's files depended on resource forks so the 
backup without them was pretty much worthless.

cheers,

ski

On 12/23/2009 01:18 PM, Chris Baker wrote:
> I do not what resource forks are. We do not have a Mac server and
> ultimately do not want one.
>
> Chris Baker -- cbaker AT intera DOT com
> systems administrator
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>     *From:* Michael Barrow [mailto:michael AT michaelbarrow DOT name]
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, December 23, 2009 1:40 PM
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>     *Subject:* Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up Macs
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>     I've used it to back up Macs. It works quite well. You need to be
>     aware of any files that might have resource forks because they won't
>     be backed up properly with the regular rsync client. Apple's client
>     supports resource forks, but as far as I know, it would have to go
>     to an OS X server as well. I've not researched this fully because I
>     had no resource forks in need of backup.
>
>     On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Chris Baker <cbaker AT intera DOT com
>     <mailto:cbaker AT intera DOT com>> wrote:
>
>         How well does BackupPC do with backing up Macs? All of the Macs
>         are OS 10 or higher, which is just a variant of BSD. Has anyone
>         done this?
>         We just bought a small company in another office that could use
>         a BackupPC there. They have some Macs.
>
>         Chris Baker -- cbaker AT intera DOT com <mailto:cbaker AT intera DOT 
> com>
>         systems administrator
>         INTERA -- 512-425-2006
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