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

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 11:33:29AM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> 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!  

Unless I'm mistaken, OS X doesn't have resource
forks. That's one of the big things about OS X. The trouble
is that some OS X apps -- notably Quicken -- stil use
resource forks, even when the design guidelines explicitly
say that they shouldn't.

So I'm curious how well it does with Mac Classic resource
forks.

> 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.

But this requires the person doing the backup to install
fink, then to compile against fink, does it not? I suppose
my coworker could compile against fink on his end, then
provide a detailed set of instructions for the fink install
on the other end -- or maybe handle the install himself.
I'll propose this, but I think the answer I'll get is that
we want to demand as little as possible from the person
doing the backup on the other end. I'm curious how they're
handling this now: do they install rsync on their clients'
machines?

-- 
``Early in the century there was detectable optimism about
  the prospects for analysing 'the', but it faded.''
 -Jerry Fodor, http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n20/fodo01_.html

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