[wplug] Backing up Mac OS X to Linux

[John Harrold]

I have a powerbook that I'm using as my primary computer. I have a file
server running Debian/Sarge at home that I'd like to use to backup
different files on my laptop. Ordinarily, I'd just use rsync over ssh, or
unison if i change files on both computer simultaneously. However, the
native file system on macs (HFS+ I believe) has something called resource
forks. As I understand it, Because of these resource forks, things like
rsync don't work correclty. Since I normally use the wireless network and
I'd like to back things up nightly, I'd like to use something like rsync to
just transfer the files that have changed. Does anyone have any suggestions
for backing up OS X to a Linux machine preferably over ssh.

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