Resource Fork Friendly rsynch?

November 18, 2004 - 6:00pm

I would like to synch two big FireWire hard drives from time to time. rsync would be the perfect choice except I have been burned in the past by that whole resource fork business. I know (from a previous tip here) that zip can be resource fork friendly but can rsync be? Cheers, Michael http://www.lolife.com/

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November 18, 2004 - 10:29pm

Adam Knight said

Look into psync instead. It copies resource forks and HFS metadata and was designed for local mirroring like that. -- cp

November 19, 2004 - 6:38pm

davidr said

RsyncX will also do the job, take a look at http://archive.macosxlabs.org/rsyncx/rsyncx.html. "RsyncX is an implementation of rsync with HFS+ support and configuration through a command line (Terminal) or graphical user interface." Cheers, Dave

November 21, 2004 - 11:07am

lolife said

I tried both of these helpful suggestions. RsyncX took forever and seemed like it was hung even though I left it for hours. psync, on the other hand, was very quick and informative. Of the two, if you are not afraid of the command line, I'd use psync.


studio [10:44am] % psync -d bd2/ bd1/
...
157051 items found.
       0 items to delete,
  156860 items unchanged,
     413 items to copy.
deleting items ...
copying items ...
fixing directory attributes ...

Mucho gracias! Michael

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