Re: [rsnapshot-discuss] Passing arguments to rsnapshot during rotation

[John H. <joh...@gm...>]

That does work for me with one correction. I wrote;
$local_rsync_short_args .= '-aE' if(
    $config_vars{'rsync_short_args'} =~ /E/ &&
    $^O eq 'darwin'
  );

we always want to include the -a flag too.
Thank you very much for your assistance.


On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:10 PM, David Cantrell <da...@ca...>
wrote:

> John Hutchison wrote:
> > For those of us using rsnapshot on Mac OS X we must use rsync with the
> > -E or --extended-attributes flags to preserve both legacy resource forks
> > and access control lists on files. Editing rsync_short_args works fine
> > during the initial hourly.0 copy but rsnapshot doesn't seem to use
> > custom flags during rotation clobbering the mac specific data.
> >
> > [19/Jun/2008:04:49:13] /usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids
> > /Volumes/Data Backup/.snapshots/hourly.0/ /Volumes/Data
> > Backup/.snapshots/hourly.1/
>
> Is this the rsync that happens immediately after cp -al runs?  If it is,
> find this line in rsnapshot (it's near the beginning of the
> sync_cleanup_after_native_cp_al subroutine):
>
>   my $local_rsync_short_args = '-a';
>
> and immediately after it add this:
>
>   $local_rsync_short_args .= 'E' if(
>     $config_vars{'rsync_short_args'} =~ /E/ &&
>     $^O eq 'darwin'
>   );
>
> If that works for you, I'll commit it to CVS.
>
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