rsync or rsyncx

[alex_schenkman]

Hi:

After reading lots of posts on the subject I am really confused about whether I should use rsync or rsyncx.
Both seem to have problmes.

I’m running 10.4.8 on XServe-G4, and I’ll be syncing 400GB of small files to local disks.
I’m not using ACLs so far.

Any hints are aprecciated.

[powelld]

I hate to admit it but I am still using rsyncx. I have tried and tried each update and several attempts by truly valiant souls to fix rsync on 10.4 and yet nothing does it better than rsyncx yet.

I have been reading a completely incomprehensible thread on the apple site about ACL’s handling that was updated in 10.4.9 but these people are so lost, the engineers. I have to really test 10.4.9 before I say it stinks. I don’t know yet. But, they are all about if you can restore the file to the original box, if you didn’t have to do a clean install first, then the ACLs will work. Otherwise, they are supposed to not work because this situation is not how Apple planned Open Directory and campus wide unique user ids to work. Cool. But this just means that the whole ACL thing probably will be a cluster *$#&%$ for the foreseeable future, because they may be functionally useless for real people like you or me.

I am wondering will Apple actually be able to go through the whole version of 10.4 without a practical workable version of rsync and it is starting to seem highly likely. Thank god for rsyncx despite its bad behavior, which can really suck. It works.

I was ready to cry. Perhaps, just perhaps this is all beside the point. I have to do some testing.

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