[rdiff-backup-users] Backing up OS X machine to Linux machine

[Sterling Anderson]

I want to back up several OS X machines to a Linux host but am  
concerned some of the HFS+ file system resource fork info will not  
get saved correctly. The Linux host filesystem is ext3 and below is  
the some of the output when I start the rdiff-backup process. As you  
can see the filesystem does not support "Mac OS X style resource  
forks". Is this going to be a problem, or is that information still  
save somehow so when I restore the files will be fine?


host1:~ sterling$ rdiff-backup -v5 --print-statistics --exclude / 
Users/sterling/.Trash /Users/sterling host2::backups/wintermute
Executing ssh -C host2 rdiff-backup --server
Unable to import module xattr.
Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at /Users/sterling
Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package.
ACLs not supported on filesystem at /Users/sterling
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Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                On
  Mac OS X Finder information                  On
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Unable to import module xattr.
Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at backups/wintermute/ 
rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package.
ACLs not supported on filesystem at backups/wintermute/rdiff-backup- 
data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
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Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system:
  Characters needing quoting                   ''
  Ownership changing                           Off
  Hard linking                                 On
  fsync() directories                          On
  Directory inc permissions                    On
  High-bit permissions                         On
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
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Sterling Anderson
Senior Information Processing Consultant
Wisconsin National Primate Research Center
http://www.primate.wisc.edu/
sterling [at] primate.wisc.edu
608.265.0883

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