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

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Our shared server at Centre Street Coop was available by AppleTalk as
well as Samba and NFS.  When pre-OS X Macs mounted the share through
AppleTalk, they created resource forks throughout the directory
structure.  rdiff-backup handled these forks with no problem.  Admittedly
they were on an ext3 linux filesystem, not a Mac filesystem.  But all
indications suggest that rdiff-backup is fine with OS X and pre-OS X
resource forks.

You don't need to build from source with fink.  That's one way to do it,
but you can also just apt-get install binaries.  I've done it in the past
easily, but not recently.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 11:38:27AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 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?
> 

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>   the prospects for analysing 'the', but it faded.''
>  -Jerry Fodor, http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n20/fodo01_.html
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