[plug] OS X -> Linux Backup

[Timothy White]

On 5/11/06, Patrick Coleman <blinken at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/11/06, Timothy White <weirdit at gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>
> > Lastly, what recommendations do people have about rsync based backups.
>
> I use dirvish (http://www.dirvish.org). It sounds similar to the
> rsnapshot you mentioned, but seems to have solved the issues you had
> with it. At least, I haven't noticed anything yet :)

Yer, dirvish was the other one I was thinking of, as it just keeps
backups in the order taken, not month, week, day.... And I think you
set expiry time's on it as well. I will look at the one again.

>
> As for backing up OSX - I haven't really done much with this, but when
> I have backed up my sisters iBook in the past I didn't worry too much
> about the resource forks (ie. I just copied the data over using cp;
> this was a once-off thing). She doesnt seem to have had any issues.
> YMMV.

I'm starting to think along the lines of not caring about the forks...
Especially if it's only Carbon apps that matter.

The other app I am looking at is backuppc...

Tim
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