Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Resource Forks and metadata file

[John Goerzen]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 07:39:24PM -0800, Daniel Hazelbaker wrote:
> *nod* which is quite alright. This is a data only backup, no system
> information. So it is basically 240GB of .psd, .doc, .xls, etc. files. So it
> really doesn't matter. All it needs is the file data and resource data. As

The place it could matter is if these files do not have an extension.
For instance, some program may save a PDF without a .pdf extension, and
instead set the creator/type info.  Preview, for instance, won't open it
if it doesn't have a .pdf or the proper creator/type.

Granted, with OS X, this is becoming less common, but it still happens.

-- John