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diff --git a/rdiff-backup/FAQ-body.html b/rdiff-backup/FAQ-body.html index 4c03a47..2977ea3 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/FAQ-body.html +++ b/rdiff-backup/FAQ-body.html @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ syntax". What's happening?</a></li> <li><a href="#windows">Does rdiff-backup run under Windows?</a></li> +<li><a href="#OSX">Does rdiff-backup run under Mac OS X?</a></li> + <li><a href="#remove_dir">My backup set contains some files that I just realized I don't want/need backed up. How do I remove them from the backup volume to save space?</li> <li><a href="#redhat">How do I install the RPMs on Redhat linux system?</a></li> @@ -111,15 +113,46 @@ some header files in the Makefile: </pre> -Then, whenever you use rdiff-backup (or at least if you are backing up -to or restoring from a Windows system), use the -<strong>--windows-time-format</strong> switch, which will tell -rdiff-backup not to put a colon (":") in a filename (this option was -added after Jason posted his message). Finally, as Michael Muegel -points out, you have to exclude all files from the source directory -which have colons in them, so add something like the --exclude ".*:.*" -option. In the near future some quoting facility may be added to deal -with these issues. +Then, whenever you use rdiff-backup to back up from a unix system to +Windows, use the <strong>--windows-mode</strong> switch. This +compensates for some windows file systems' inability to store hard +links, symlinks, device files, sockets, fifos, case sensitive +filenames, and filenames with colons (":") in them. (Note: device +files, symlinks, fifos, and sockets will simply be skipped, and hard +link information will not be recorded.) + +<p>If you are backing up one windows system to another, full +--windows-mode is not necessary, but you'll still need +<strong>--windows-time-format</strong>, which stops rdiff-backup from +trying to make increment files with colons in them. +</li> + +<P> +<a name="OSX"> +<li><strong>Does rdiff-backup run under Mac OS X?</strong> + +<p> +Yes, but there may be some issues installing librsync. See this +message from Gerd Knops: + +<pre> +From: Gerd Knops <gerti@bitart.com> +Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 03:56:47 -0500 (01:56 PDT) + +[parts of original message deleted] +these instructions build it fine with all tests running OK +(librsync-0.9.5.1 on OS X 10.2.1): + + aclocal + autoconf + automake --foreign --add-missing + CFLAGS=-no-cpp-precomp ./configure + make + make install +</pre> + +Also, if you are backing up to a file system that is not case +sensitive you may need to use "--chars-to-quote A-Z". </li> <P> |