I thought I'd log this in the archives for future reference for anybody
trying to get rsnapshot working with Mac OS X. There are some issues,
not serious, but enough to make you scratch your head.
I've got rsnapshot working on my Linux servers so moved onto my Mac
clients. Mac's use UNIX so this should be a doddle! Nope, a bit trickier
than I thought.
The ssh stuff works out of the box, so my backup linux box can ssh over
to the Mac without any problems. I thought I'd do a quick test with /etc
on a Mac justto check it works OK. Two hours later, not a file has been
transferred yet not a single error has been logged. The configuration is
identical to my other Linux clients so this is weird.
I've added -v -v -v -v -v to rsync and run it manually to see what
happens, lots of odd errors I don't understand. I did assume it was the
version of rsync on the Mac, but the current version 2.6.3 appears OK.
Did I need to download rsyncX, not really sure, but nothing at all was
being transferred (and no obvious problem). Looked at permissions, they
looked OK.
Eventually the problem was tracked down to /etc on a Mac is actually a
symbolic link to private/etc. rysnc was having problems resolving this
blah blah blah. Forgetting about /etc and actually rsnapshotting /Users
which is really what I wanted seems to work OK.
So lessons learnt:
1) Never assume anything on a Mac is standard because it isn't.
2) Check everything
3) See point 1).
This may help somebody else now.
All the best,
Rob.
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