[COLUG] Home based backup

[shane]

On Jun 21, 2007, at 9:33 AM, William Yang wrote:

> Duane wrote:
>> I was looking at some of the links posted in this thread and came  
>> across
>> this one by accident:
>> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
>> not only is it claiming to do incremental backups across multiple
>> computers, but not duplicate identical files from the multiple
>> computers, oh and it seems to work on windows.
>> Does anyone know if these claims are true?
>
> Additionally, does this system actually handle Mac resource forks  
> correctly?  Many systems don't (and seeing 'rsync' on on its web  
> page makes me think this is one of those failing systems, because  
> Apple's rsync doesn't support resource forks)....

I am fairly certain the rsync in 10.4 does handle resource forks. I  
think it is 10.3's version of rsync that didn't.
main rsync
  [...]
-E  --extended-attributes   copy extended attributes, resource forks

  Shane