Thanks for the info!  I'll make sure Marcus sees this.

Ken

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 11:41 +0200, Martial Boniou wrote:
> Hi Ken,
> 
> I'm not an expert in file systems science but it seems that the HFS+ is
> a big problem with the standard rsync command. I don't use OSX server
> anymore but with OSX tiger, I only use a proprietary solution named
> superduper as I never found a good free command to make good copies
> between my hard disks.
> 
> For a specific rsync solution, I got this program here:
> http://hondana.net/Resources/Binary/OSX/
> 
> RsyncX is a hack but it works very well. My personal data centers are on
> XFS I manage through Linux. I only use HFS+ for my client computer. If
> your admin (markus I mean) need a command line program, the rsyncx
> command is inside the .app bundle (NeXT reminiscence).
> 
> I don't know if the original OSX file systems named UFS would be a
> better solution for servers but the lack of fs tools on OSX is very
> annoying.
> 
> I hope this will help,
> 
> Cheers
> 
> --
> Martial
> 
> 
> 
> Ken Causey a écrit :
> | Marcus Denker is trying to help us out by backing up the community
> | server on a server to which he has access.  This happens to be a MacOSX
> | server.  We are using rsync/rsnapshot but having some trouble.  If you
> | have experience with rsync or rsnapshot on MacOSX I would appreciate the
> | opportunity to speak with you.
> | 
> | Ken
> | 
> 
> 
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> | 
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