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> I wound up giving in and using tar. Fortunately only a few things > had resource forks so it worked OK. Hie thee to http://www.metaobject.com/Products.html then then scroll to the bottom or jump to http://www.metaobject.com/downloads/macos-x/ and grab hfstar. There's also an hfspax. Just stay clear of rsyncx. You see, when one makes incompatible changes in the rsync protocol, one is normally expected to change the version number so one doesn't use it with normal rsync and then discover that ones backup consists almost entirely of empty files. Because how rsyncx "handles" resource forks and finder info is to send each file three times with the same name and inode number, and the receiving rsyncx goes "oh, I already have this, this must be the resource fork". It turns out that normal rsync is entirely happy to accept the same file multiple times and write over the already synced file with its finder info and then its usually empty resource fork. I have a patched version of rsync somewhere that sends the resource fork with a synthetic inode number and a new name, so it works with rsync. It doesn't send the finder info, though, because you can't just open the file with a different name and read that like you can with the resource fork, so I hadn't got that far before I found hfspax and hfstar and switched to Amanda for my Mac backups.There's stuff above here
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