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My first backup script is a straight forward backup of my home directory on my Mac to an external Firewire drive connected through the very nifty ComboDock from WiebeTECH. At points to numerous to count RsyncX will prompt for a password. In the instructions below I walk through each of the screens that the assistant has. This assistant, available under the Assistants menu item, creates a script that takes advantage of Rsync's incremental backup features which are fully explained here. I used RsyncX's Rotating Backup Assistant to create my two backup scripts.

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Also, for those who really feel the need to save $20-$60, this document will provide at least some guidance on how to use RsyncX. My purpose then in writing this article is to document what I did so if something ever goes wrong I have some hope of fixing it. Unfortunately, much like the boiled frog, I didn't realize I should jump out until it was too late.

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All things considered I wish I hadn't tried to use RsyncX and instead had just bought some backup software, there is a lot of good software available in the $20-$60 range. In addition the documentation is out of date and the interfaces and explanations provided by the program were difficult for me to follow. Unfortunately the assistants and interfaces I used almost all suffered from multiple bugs. The UI provided by RsyncX consists of assistants and other interfaces primarily designed to generate Rsync scripts. Unfortunately the work still has a long way too go. In addition the team did a bunch of work creating a nicer UI for Rsync. RsyncX 2.1, near as I can tell, is primarily intended to create a version of Rsync that can handle some of the magic in the Mac file system, specifically the resource and data forks. It is outrageously powerful which means that it has pages of options which I aspire to never understand. Rsync is a program available just about anywhere UNIX hangs out. My take away from this experience is that I should have just bought backup software. Below I give step-by-step instructions on how I used RsyncX to set up both my local and remote backups.

After seven or so hours I finally managed to get everything working.

RsyncX is a little less unfriendly, say about the level of a club to the head. Rsync by itself is about as friendly as an angry viper. RsyncX is a 'friendly' front end to Rsync. Rsync is a command line open source program used to do sophisticated data backup. I had evaluated a bunch of backup software when a friend (who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty) pointed out Rsync and RsyncX 2.1.

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