Hi folks,

I just uploaded Backup Bouncer 0.1.2 for your backup-tool-testing pleasure. Get it at the usual place. Not a whole lot has changed, but there’s a fix to extended attribute handling that solves some problems in Leopard. Andreas Fuchs provided a patch for this and also mentioned that SuperDuper can’t handle dangling [...]

Let’s hear it for xar, the first copier to ace the Backup Bouncer test suite! In my last post I mentioned that they were just one test away, and now that bug 19 is fixed they’ve nailed it. Kudos to Rob Braun and the rest of the folks working on xar (if there [...]

I just tried testing the latest SVN HEAD revision of xar, and wow.

—————— xar ——————
Verifying: basic-permissions … ok
Verifying: timestamps …
Sub-test: modification time … ok
ok
Verifying: [...]

I just released Backup Bouncer 0.1.1, because the ACL tests in 0.1.0 were totally broken.

Get it while it’s hot!

Do you back up your files? Of course you do! (Right? Right???) But do your backups work? Really? Are you sure? Have you checked?

Doing backups in OS X has always been a bit nerve-wracking. We’ve got resource forks, Finder flags, and various other odd metadata that don’t [...]