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I have to cleanup my mails so here the link to the Apple Command-line backup documentation

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Backing up your hard drive is like going to the dentist: important, but unpleasant enough that it is easy to put off or forget. Because of that, the best way to keep your data safe is to schedule regular backups. While there are numerous commercial applications that address this need (including Apple’s .mac Backup), they tend to either require the user to be logged in, or be connected to an enterprise data center.

The traditional UNIX alternative is to run a command-line backup tool as part of a ‘cron’ script, but many system administrators are unaware of the variety of options available for unattended backups under Mac OS X.

This article discusses some of the issues faced in making backups, the special considerations of Mac OS X systems, a number of options which allow the creation of viable backups, and a few potential pitfalls of developing a backup system. This article does not cover BSD flags, or systems prior to Mac OS v10.4 Tiger. And for simplicity, this article assumes that you have not turned on ACLs (using Mac OS X Server or fsaclctl) on the filesystem you are wanting to back up. There are some subtleties in how these tools interact with ACLs that are beyond the scope of this article. Please consult the latest documentation for each tool for more details.

Links:

• Apple Command-line backup solutions document

• How to tell Mac OS X Software Update to ignore something
• Mac ::: Getting started with launchd
• 10.5 ::: How to use “Quick Look” from cli

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