rsync install

rsync is pre-installed in Mac OS X. You shouldn't have needed to install anything else.

If you did build/install your own rsync then it's possible you've built it in such a way that it won't work with LBackup (which is just a front-end to rsync).

I'd start by throwing away whatever custom build of rsync you have and use the standard version.

Here is my version of rsync - notice the HFS+ support - I suspect that is what your rsync lacks. I forget where I got this version, but a web search will lead to it, I'm sure.

rsync version 2.6.0 protocol version 27
Copyright (C) 1996-2004 by Andrew Tridgell and others
HFS+ filesystem support for OSX (C)2004 Kevin A. Boyd
<http://rsync.samba.org/

Boyd

I am short of time this morning - I'll try to find how to do it this afternoon, hopefully, and post my findings here. One time I compiled it from scratch, but I believe the last time, I found the complete package somewhere.

It's a shame that rsync.samba.org doesn't keep a current version available including HFS+ at their site - and it may be there, but I couldn't find it.

Later.

Boyd

There are some bugs in the rsync that comes with 10.4. Read this page for more info:
http://Gnarlodious.com/Computer/MacOsx/RsyncToFirewire

The Quinton Dolan version works well enough, although it is not perfect.

Amazing! Can't trace it on my Mac (how I got my working version of rsync). So I searched on the discussion list, and found detailed instructions (posted by myself) 🙂

Below is the last note in that thread.
I might note that I use tcsh so there are slight differences from bash, so enter "tcsh" at the prompt to switch to that shell.

I was doing this for Panther. I assume you could do the same for Tiger, etc.

Hope you all have great Christmas (or Hanakah, etc.) and New Year celebrations

Boyd
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Re: RsyncX problems in Panther
Posted: Apr 6, 2006 12:25 PM in response to: Boyd

I wanted to be able to use the CVS repository of the HFS version of rsync. Since I had to struggle to be able to do it, I logged my terminal session and sprinkled comments in it.

I am pasting it here (hoping the format will be readable).

Hope this helps other newbies with CVS.

Boyd

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# here are steps I took, with comments inserted after "#" symbols

cd # to got to your home directory (folder)
mkdir mycvs # make a directory for this project
cd mycvs # go to that directory
setenv CVSROOT\
:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.opendarwin.org:/Volumes/src/cvs/od
# this sets the cvs environment to make it easy to login
cvs login
cvs co projects/rsync_hfs # checks out the repository,
# making a copy under mycvs
cd projects/rsync_hfs # go to the main directory that contains the source files
more INSTALL # read the INSTALL documentation
./configure # this configures everything, makes sure you have gcc, etc.
make # this makes a local version of rsync
sudo make install # this will install it in /usr/local/bin
which rsync # see if your path shows it
# note: in my case, I renamed the original /usr/bin/rsync to /usr/bin/rsync.orig
# and then did sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/rsync /usr/bin/rsync
# so that the latter is a symbolic link to the new one
rsync --version # see if it shows the HFS+
# or if you want to keep the old one available, refer to the new one as /usr/local/bin/rsync
# as in : /usr/local/bin/rsync --version

(if you are through with the project and want to remove the source code:
cvs release # reverse the checkout above (not really necessary)
cd # go back to your home directory
rm -fr mycvs/projects # delete the source code - no reason to keep it - you can # always repeat this process to regain it
)

cvs logout