Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Resource forks HFS+

[Stelios K. Kyriacou]

I can only answer the last part of your question. To list all files and 
directories being backed-up you should use verbosity 5.

Stelios


On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Daniel Hazelbaker wrote:

> I am trying to figure out how to implement a new option to rdiff-backup.  It
> would be useful for Mac OS X machines only running on HFS+ file systems.
> The option would be --use-resource-forks and would return the filename and
> the filename + "/rsrc".
> 
> Reason: Mac OS X gives you access to the resource fork information by
> appending /rsrc to the filename.  We want to backup a few hundred gigs of
> data, incrementally. These files have resource fork information that we
> would like to have backed up as well.  The easiest way I can think to do
> this is with a modification to rdiff-backup that has it include the resource
> fork information. (When there is no resource fork information the "file" is
> 0 bytes long).
> 
> Now.  I am a fairly good programmer but I have VERY little experience with
> python.  If I understand the code then I need to modify Iterate: and
> Iterate_fast: functions in selection.py.  The Iterate function I think I
> understand but the Iterate_fast function is a bit confusing to me.  So if
> somebody could give some insight on how to do that, that would be great.
> Also it would be very helpful to have it list all files/directories it is
> mirroring and incrementing, what log/verbose level do I need to do this
> without flooding myself with other info?
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel Hazelbaker
> Network Administrator
> High Desert Church
> 
> (Please C.C. Me as I am not on this list)
> 
> 
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