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* On 2005.05.13, in <20050513075031.GA10214@xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx>, * "Michael G Schwern" <schwern@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 05:33:59PM +1000, Matt McLeod wrote: > > I wound up giving in and using tar. Fortunately only a few things > > had resource forks so it worked OK. > > I backup using rsyncX which is rsync + resource fork awareness + a little > GUI. > http://archive.macosxlabs.org/rsyncx/rsyncx.html I've had many problems with rsyncx, most of which I haven't cared enough to learn more about. I now use ditto(1) to copy my MacOS files if I suspect some bastard stuck a resource fork in there anywhere. Ditto has its own body of hate, but at least there's no intersection with this thread. Copying through a pipe, you can force ditto to read or write from a cpio-formatted stream, so you can pipe ditto into ssh ditto, or whatever else you need. -- -D. dgc@xxxxxxxx.xxx NSIT University of ChicagoThere's stuff above here
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