On Sat, 2006-08-05 19:34:39 -0700, Jeffrey Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 8/5/06 4:51 PM, Jan-Benedict Glaw at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > rsync can be used in conjunction with several transport protocols. In > > one incarnation, you can tell rsync about a command (supplied with the > > -e command line option) that'll execute a given command (that'll be > > supplied on the command line) on a remote host. > > > > The usual usage is to tell rsync to use ssh so shift all the data over > > the internet. That way, you can strongly authenticate the remote host > > (so that simple IP spoofing won't give an attacker all of your backup) > > as well as encrypt all the traffic. > > time sudo rsync -a -v -e ssh "/Volumes/Firewire\ 600" /Volumes/Firewire\ > 250a --eahfs --showtogo --update > > In this, I don't understand any of the options after the two volumes, with > the exception of --update. Can you explain what all this means?
--eahfs isn't available in my version of rsync, but Googling for it reveals that it's an extension used on MacOS to backup "resources and metadata" (cf. http://hardware.mcse.ms/message191839.html). --showtogo as well isn't supported by my rsync version, but Google tells that it's probably used to get some "remaining files to be synchronized" estimation of some sort, cf. http://www.goland.org/rsync/ . > This script was generated using RsyncX. I bring that up because, hfs looks > suspiciously like the Mac OS X File System. :) So either don't use the HFS+ extension (--showtogo seems to only be eye-candy) and backup only the pure data (loosing some metadata), or search for the patches adding the --eahfs code and recompile (or install prepared binaries if available.) MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-172-7608481 Signature of: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html the second :
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