If you have a mac, you have no excuse to not keep backups because it is cheap, fast, and incredibly easy.
- Go to the computer store of your choice and buy an external hard drive at least as big as the one in your system.
- Open /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app
- Using Disk Utility, format the external hard drive HFS+ and name it "External".
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The upshot of this is you end up running a full backup each time instead of an incremental.
The workaround seems to be using this guy's patch or installing Rsyncx. Rsyncx has its own quirks, but I was in a hurry so that's what I'm using until I've taken care of some other issues.
I have used unison to do two-way synchronization of big source trees and it works great. It's is reliable and efficient, even over Wifi->VPN->DSL->big_corporate_network->server. Unfortunately, unison is much slower than rsync when copying my entire drive.
Also, I can't print.
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The upshot of this is you end up running a full backup each time instead of an incremental.
I can't reproduce your bug. I'm doing incrementals. Granted it seems to be transferring some files it shouldn't be, but on the whole I'm still saving a ton of time.
sent 256632046 bytes received 20500 bytes 1523160.51 bytes/sec
total size is 41261212684 speedup is 160.77
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I can confirm that the time bug was affecting every file for me. I just know that I was transferring some files which hadn't changed, and when I compared to the destination volume I found that the mod times were wrong. I've also turned off the ignore ownership option on the external.
On a slight tangent, I still haven't arrived at an appropriate set of excludes. Are you doing any file exclusion? I'm using --delete-excluded and just noticed that because of that I might be inadvertently re-enabling Spotlight indexing on the destination volume. Still need to investigate that one.
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[soren@lynx test]$ ls -al foo
total 412
drwxrwxr-x 2 soren soren 4096 Feb 4 21:05 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 soren soren 4096 Feb 4 21:09 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 soren soren 409305 May 29 1975 words
[soren@lynx test]$ mkdir bar
[soren@lynx test]$ rsync -av foo bar
building file list ... done
foo/
foo/words
wrote 409484 bytes read 36 bytes 819040.00 bytes/sec
total size is 409305 speedup is 1.00
[soren@lynx test]$ ls -al bar/foo
total 412
drwxrwxr-x 2 soren soren 4096 Feb 4 21:05 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 soren soren 4096 Feb 4 21:09 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 soren soren 409305 May 29 1975 words
And here's OSX:
gpb:/Volumes/test soren$ ls -al foo ( ... )
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