| | Mini-HOWTO: Fixing rsync on Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4.x) |
 | | When used with the --delete option, the rsync receiver will try to unlink the (fake) synthetic files, flooding the syslog with failure reports, possibly filling the entire boot disk. |
 | | With rsync installed in Server mode (see the man pages) on a Mac mini, a no-changes full filesystem 'incremental' backup takes 45 minutes over Airport Extreme (and less over Ethernet), during which both machines are still mostly responsive. |
 | | Using the same patched rsync source on Linux, I have backed up my entire OS X boot disk to a Linux server, then restored the files from the Linux server to a FireWire drive connected to my Mac. |
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