[DominikHoffmann]

The O'Reilly book "Mac OS X Hacks" by R. Dornfes & K. Hemenway suggests to use rsync to back up directories from one location to another. In one example the rsync operation even goes from one volume to another. It had been my impression that the standard Unix commands, including cp, mv, etc., copy resource forks only if the copy is within the same volume. Hence Apple supplies CpMac. Doesn't this restriction also apply to the rsync command?

Dominik Hoffmann

[Paul McCann]

Yep: rsync won't touch your resource forks. To get the equivalent functionality while respecting the resource forks you'll probably want something like rsyncX, which is available from macosxlabs.org

http://macosxlabs.org/rsyncx/rsyncx.html

[[Warning: I haven't used it much for over a year, so consider this a pointer rather than a recommendation!]]

Cheers,
Paul