So, I backed up a Mac OS X workstation that crashed, and learned the hard way
that OS X uses things ( particularly for fonts, it seems) known as 'resource
forks', which don't get backed up with normal tools. Ouch.
A little research showed me that rsync (2.6.9) for Mac supports the -E option,
w
Oh. Thanks!
> Subject: Re: Hidden files
> From: m...@mattmccutchen.net
> To: yan...@hotmail.com
> CC: rsync@lists.samba.org
> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 21:55:26 -0500
>
> On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 21:04 -0500, Y z wrote:
> > Wonder
Wondering why rsync isn't copying hidden files. I thought (google told me so)
that rsync doesn't treat dot files specially.
Source/destination rsync: 3.0.7
command:
# rsync -azPv * 10.1.1.1:/u2/ubuntu/
sending incremental file list
sent 96026 bytes received 388 bytes 38565.60 bytes/sec
tota
