[X-Unix] using rsync to automatically backup home directories (was RE: rsync help)

[Craig Hoffman]

> Which OS?
Leopard 5.1

What's still strange, I tried using rsync to move a few image (jpg)  
using the E flag and it worked.  I was able to view the files in the  
Finder.
>> rsync -avE /Volumes/Twilight/Music/ /Volumes/teakettle/Music

Then I tried it on some mp3's / music files using the same flags and  
the files became invisible again.  What's up with that?
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On Jan 24, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Richard Hartman wrote:

>
> On Jan 24, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Craig Hoffman wrote:
>
>> This is strange...  It looks like the files are being moved.  But  
>> there invisible.  If I use Transmit and choose the network drive  
>> and select "Show Invisible Files", they appear.
>>
>> For a test I dragged a file over using the Finder and it appears.   
>> Somehow using rsync is making them invisible.
>>
>> I'm using this:
>> rsync -av /Volumes/Twilight/Music/ /Volumes/teakettle/Music
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> The drive is a LaCle Ethernet Big Disk, formated XFS
>>
>
> Which OS?
>
> Leopard has introduced some new fire/directory metadata ("ls -la"  
> shows some of these changes by the appearance of an "@" item at the  
> end of the permissions strings for files with metadata).
>
> Inferring how this might impact the use of rsync from leopard<- 
> >leopard or leapord<->tiger is waaaay beyond my pay grade.
>
> Richard
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