I have been given the task to mirror our fileserver's filesystem onto a secondary machine for redundancy. The first thing that came to mind was rsync, but now I have few questions as I am far from an expert on this matter.
Our file server is running Debian Stable. We use Samba for our Windows users and Netatalk (AFP) for our OS X clients. The filesystem used on the server is ReiserFS if that is of any intress. Since we keep a lot of fonts etc. on the disks, I am really conserned about the resource forks not being properly handled by rsync during backup or restore – this is critical!
So, through Google I noticed a couple of projects dedicated to patches or binaries of rsync which allowed for the safe keeping of resource forks – but these projects were targeted for OS X, not GNU / Linux. Hence, this e-mail to you all... I'm hoping someone out there can share their wealth of knowledge regarding this issue which I certainly cannot be the first one to encounter. Any solutions or workarounds would be of great help!
Thanks everyone!
//didde.
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