Hi all,
It's been a while since I followed BackupPC closely, although I have
been using it to back up linux clients for at least 10 years.
I'd like to start backing up a mac, and I'm concerned about resource
forks. I realize that resource forks aren't as big a deal as they used
to be, but a quick find showed several existing files with resource
forks, and I certainly want my backup solution to be fire-and-forget.
I recall many years ago, there was someone who backed up tons of macs
using backuppc with "XTar" as the transport - it's a tar that supports
resource forks somehow. Xtar still is available for download, but it
hasn't been updated since 2004.
Similarly, there's old discussion out there about hfstar, a set of
patches to gnu tar. Also hasn't been updated in forever.
The backuppc docs note in passing that tar works, but I wonder if there
are caveats - e.g., does my pool filesystem need to support extended
attributes natively? It seems like modern rsync's -X option will
transfer the xattr's but expects the remote filesystem to support them
(seems reasonable).
So - any current best practices? Can backuppc run rsync "natively"
somehow, that is, without File::RsyncP but rather by calling rsync on
the server?
thanks
danno
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University of Michigan
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