Re: rsync cloning arguments

[R]

> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:10:52 +0000, R <me...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> >Which arguments to rsync should I use to clone OS X?
> >
> >'avE' and '--delete', perhaps? Anything else?
>
> Can rsync alone can make a bootable OSX disk?

Having googled around, it seems rsync + bless used to work,
but might not now:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2199780&tstart=0

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

I generally use Carbon Copy Cloner to image a disk, and rsync to keep
parts of it up to date (eg just one user account). To keep the whole
disk up to date I'll use CCC again, which does a diff-update itself.

Cheers - Jaimie
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[R]

Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:

> I generally use Carbon Copy Cloner to image a disk, and rsync to keep
> parts of it up to date (eg just one user account). To keep the whole
> disk up to date I'll use CCC again, which does a diff-update itself.

I might look into CCC, but I'd prefer rsync if I can get
that to work. I think there's a good chance Apple will
update rsync to take care of hfs compression.