[Macpartners] How safe/secure is 'Personal File Sharing' on Mac OS X?

[Nicholas A Knouf]

The only problem with rsync is the lack of resource fork support on OS X.  There
is a fork of rsync called RsyncX that does have resource fork support, but I've
heard of problems with it.

Most OS X files don't use resource forks anymore, but some do and especially if
you're transferring pre-OS X files you'll have issues with losing resource
forks.

Nick



Quoting vanni <vanni at MIT.EDU>:

> 
> If you can do things from the command like (the SHELL),
> my suggestion is that (from HOME) you use "rsync".
> (via SSH and perhaps tunneling (if needed))
> 
> Other side benefits of "rsync" are:
>       It's OS/filesystem independent (in most cases)
>          (for example you can use Athena as the FileServer/Exchange Point)
>       It can handle large trees over slow links.
>          (since it sends only the changed filed and also does
>            compression on the fly)
> 
> If it looks interesting, let me know and I can provide an example.
> 
> -vanni
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