How to prevent data corruption.

2005-10-18 Thread Andrea Riciputi
Hi all, I'm setting a script to backup my system using rsync. After reading the manual and googling the web a lot I'm wondering how rsync can protect my data from any potential corruption of the source HD. Suppose that a file on the source HD has been corrupted (because of a device failure

Re: rsync-ing on MacOS X.

2005-02-01 Thread Andrea Riciputi
I'm aware of RsyncX, anyway I was wondering if the patch required to make rsync correctly working with HFS+ filesystem will ever be included in the main trunck. Cheers, Andrea. P.S.: I'm already using rsyncbackp. Good script! On 1 Feb 2005, at 06:54, Andreas Åkre Solberg wrote: There exists an

rsync-ing on MacOS X.

2005-01-29 Thread Andrea Riciputi
Hi all, I'm setting up a backup script for my Mac, and I'm wondering about the rsync ability of dealing with HFS+ filesystem (resource-fork and such...). I've searched the mailing list archive for this topic and I've found some thread regarding it, but it's not clear to me what is the actual si

Re: Help for a newbie.

2005-01-25 Thread Andrea Riciputi
Thanks Rick, actually rsync -a --include "~/Library/bar/" --exclude "*/Library/*" source target doesn't work as expected, but the following: rsync -a --include "Library/bar/" --exclude "*/Library/*" source target does work! Could anyone explain what's going on here, even if I've read rsync man p

Help for a newbie.

2005-01-25 Thread Andrea Riciputi
Hi all, I'm new to rsync and I'm trying to do a backup of my home directory, but I've a problem here. I'm not able to select the directory that I want to backup and exclude those I don't want to. I've googled a lot and I've also searched the rsync mailing list archive but without success, so I