[geeks] rsync type backup for Apple machines?

[Joshua Boyd]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 05:11:13PM +0200, Jonathan Groll wrote:

> > I use a combination of CCC and rsync to the network and rsync to a local
> > external drive (which also houses rsyncs from the rest of the network).
> > For the rsyncs I don't worry about the entire disk, I only worry about
> > user data.  The CCC is only done occasionally since I'll restore the
> > user data from the network, I'm mainly concerned about not having to
> > reinstall my mac entirely.
> 
> This sounds like the sanest approach, I'm going to try that together
> with the rsync from pkgsrc:
> net/rsync, version 3.0.2
> 
> Thanks to Nate's reading list, it seems essential to get a version of
> rsync > 3

I haven't upgraded my rsync and I haven't had trouble.  That could be
luck though.
 
> I have similar concerns to those you have - I don't want to reinstall
> my mac entirely as there are lots of tweaks that I have done over time
> that I've now forgotten about - like how to replace cron jobs with
> .plists and how to get postfix to work.

What is the benefit of replacing cron jobs with .plists?

I run postfix only on Solaris, so I didn't have to worry about that.