Comments on: latest rsync looking good for OS X metadata http://slagwerks.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/10/latest-rsync-looking-good-for-os-x-metadata/ Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:44:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: JJG http://slagwerks.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/10/latest-rsync-looking-good-for-os-x-metadata/comment-page-1/#comment-7604 JJG Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:33:06 +0000 http://slagwerks.com/blog/?p=56#comment-7604 Regarding "Thanks to Mike Bombich, I learned about some extra flags to add (though my copy of rsync doesn't seem to know about the -N or --fileflags he has):" The "-N" or "--fileflags" need to be patched/compiled in. Maybe the MacPorts version didn't include them. See this: Apply patches relevant to preserving Mac OS X metadata patch -p1 <patches/fileflags.diff patch -p1 <patches/crtimes.diff From this page: http://www.bombich.com/mactips/rsync.html Regarding “Thanks to Mike Bombich, I learned about some extra flags to add (though my copy of rsync doesn’t seem to know about the -N or — fileflags he has):”

The “-N” or “ — fileflags” need to be patched/compiled in. Maybe the MacPorts version didn’t include them.

See this:

Apply patches relevant to preserving Mac OS X metadata
patch -p1 <patches/fileflags.diff
patch -p1 <patches/crtimes.diff

From this page: http://www.bombich.com/mactips/rsync.html

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