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20031030 Thursday October 30, 2003

Rsync Bookmarks Chris has a couple of nice links about Rsync. I've been looking to use rsync to backup my iTunes Library on my Linux box in case my laptop dies. Hopefully these links will serve as nice bookmarks when I finally get around to doing this.

Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync - You know you need it. (Also see OSX-specific tasks and tips.) [cwinters.com]

Posted in Mac OS X at Oct 30 2003, 02:44:32 PM MST 2 Comments

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Make sure you watch out for resource fork issues. It probably isn't a problem with the mp3 files you are backing up but if you are backing up all your mp3s then you are going to want to back your iTunes library file too and that file probably needs to be copied over with its resource fork intact in order to be reconized again by OS X.

Posted by Kurt on October 30, 2003 at 05:47 PM MST #

It's interesting that Andrew Tridgell, the creator of both Samba and rsync, expects rsync to eclipse Samba in the long term. Once(if?) open standards become more than a nice idea, Samba will require a lot less effort to maintain than at present.

Posted by Trent Bartlem on October 30, 2003 at 05:48 PM MST #

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