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rsync, OS X and permissions woes
Having a rather tough time tonight, trying to back up my ReadyNAS Ultra 6 Pro to a Snow Leopard Mac Pro over my LAN using rsync. I'm almost there, but I'm falling at the final fence because of permiss...
I just realised I said SuperDuper above. Actually I didn't use that because it doesn't allow individual folder control; I used Carbon Copy Cloner instead. I searched pretty hard for a verify option but all I could find was something that activates a checksum comparison. What I'm hoping is that I can re-do the backups with checksums enabled after the files have been copied once, and it will just go through the data and compare checksums. I tried enabling it from the start, but ended up aborting because it was REALLY slow...
Mostly my NAS contains backups of other machines, plus a collection of DVDs - all of which could be re-generated if necessary; if the backups are corrupted then I can simply re-do them from scratch instead of trying to refresh them. However, there is a small amount of irreplaceable data... archives of important projects etc. Maybe I can try the checksum option just on that, if I can work out how.
Mostly my NAS contains backups of other machines, plus a collection of DVDs - all of which could be re-generated if necessary; if the backups are corrupted then I can simply re-do them from scratch instead of trying to refresh them. However, there is a small amount of irreplaceable data... archives of important projects etc. Maybe I can try the checksum option just on that, if I can work out how.
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