- Added the --acls (-A) option to preserve Access Control Lists. This is
an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even
- supports OS X ACLs. (If you need to have backward compatibility with
- old, patched versions of rsync, apply the acls.diff file from the patches
- dir.)
+ supports OS X ACLs. If you need to have backward compatibility with old,
+ acl-patched versions of rsync, apply the acls.diff file from the patches
+ dir.
- Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserver extended attributes. This is
- an improved version of the prior patch that was available. (If you need
- to have backward compatibility with old, patched versions of rsync, apply
- the xattrs.diff file from the patches dir.)
+ an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even
+ supports OS X xattrs (which includes their resource fork data). If you
+ need to have backward compatibility with old, xattr-patched versions of
+ rsync, apply the xattrs.diff file from the patches dir.
- Added the --fake-super option that allows a non-super user to preserve
all attributes of a file by using a special extended-attribute idiom.
+ It even supports the storing of foreign ACL data on your backup server.
There is also an analogous "fake super" option for an rsync daemon.
- Added the --iconv option, which allows rsync to convert filenames from