[Linux-disciples] Re: Rdiff-backup (fwd)

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

According to

/usr/share/doc/rdiff-backup/changelog.gz:

  Thanks to patches by Daniel Hazelbaker, rdiff-backup now reads and
  writes Mac OS X style resource forks!  

(dated July of 2003, so nearly a year-and-a-half ago)

I don't think it should be so hard to build rdiff-backup for OS X.  If
you have fink you should just be able to apt-get rdiff-backup.
OpenDarwin is only related to X apps, which rdiff-backup certainly is
not.

Don't know about Windows, though.

I also don't think it's accurate to describe cygwin as "a complete Linux
VM."  As I remember, cygwin doesn't use Linux at all--it just provides
thu GNU etc. tools for Windows.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 11:25:42AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> A coworker has a bunch of clients who run Mac OS X and
> Windows machines, and he'd like to get them all backed up to
> the same machine to which he backs up his Linux box. I
> recommended rdiff-backup, but it seems to have problems with
> Mac 9.x resource forks. He's currently using rsync, I
> gather, along with a one-off script.
> 
> See his comments below. My question is: does anyone out
> there have experience getting rdiff-backup to work with the
> other OSes? I've noticed that Linux tools, if they're old
> enough, tend to grow to encompass all kinds of other file
> types or server schemes; I'd be surprised if rdiff-backup
> were not fully compatible with MacOS and Windows. But this
> guy seems fairly convinced that it's not.
> 
> > Looks awesome, but there are two problems I see:
> >
> > 1) I would have to compile it for OSX, and I don't think it would work 
> > very easily.  A quick look at the docs shows it can be done, but you 
> > have to both hack the makefile and install the fink / OpenDarwin 
> > stuff.
> >
> > 2) The Windows version does not run under windows.  It requires 
> > hacking the makefile significantly, as well as installing the cygwin 
> > "extensions," also known as a complete linux VM.
> >
> > I don't think requiring users to make a significant change to their 
> > environment is going to earn us any love from our customers, as cool 
> > as this thing is.  Better to work with the tools at hand.
> 
> 
> 

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