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Backup Bouncer... Hey there OS X user! Do you back up your files? Of course you do! Right? Right?? But do your backups work? Really? Are you sure? Have you checked?
Backup Bouncer is here to help keep the ugly backup tools out of the club. It's a command-line-based test suite that makes it easy to find out how bad (or good, if you're lucky) your backup software is. It aims to be a comprehensive test for preservation of all OS X file metadata. The initial release tests for preservation of:
Backup Bouncer is here to help keep the ugly backup tools out of the club. It's a command-line-based test suite that makes it easy to find out how bad (or good, if you're lucky) your backup software is. It aims to be a comprehensive test for preservation of all OS X file metadata. The initial release tests for preservation of:
- Basic permissions, ownership, and timestamps
- Symbolic links
- Ownership of
What's New
Version 0.2.0:
- Removed ctool to solve Snow Leopard build problems.
- Fixed the order of operations in the combo-test.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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Backup Bouncer... Hey there OS X user! Do you back up your files? Of course you do! Right? Right?? But do your backups work? Really? Are you sure? Have you checked?
Backup Bouncer is here to help keep the ugly backup tools out of the club. It's a command-line-based test suite that makes it easy to find out how bad (or good, if you're lucky) your backup software is. It aims to be a comprehensive test for preservation of all OS X file metadata. The initial release tests for preservation of:
Backup Bouncer is here to help keep the ugly backup tools out of the club. It's a command-line-based test suite that makes it easy to find out how bad (or good, if you're lucky) your backup software is. It aims to be a comprehensive test for preservation of all OS X file metadata. The initial release tests for preservation of:
- Basic permissions, ownership, and timestamps
- Symbolic links
- Ownership of symbolic links
- Hard links
- Resource forks
- Finder flags
- Finder locks
- Finder creation date
- BSD flags
- Extended attributes (on files, directories, and symbolic links)
- Access Control Lists (on files, directories, and symbolic links)
- FIFOs
- Devices
- Combinations of the above
- Create test volumes
- Populate them with interesting files
- Run a test suite of popular (and not-so-popular) command-line copiers, including cp, rsync, tar, ditto, pax, and xar
- Verify the results of a copy, either from its own test suite or your favorite command-line or graphical tool
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Also, there is a patched version of this utility with some additional tests which is available from Mike Bombich, the developer of Carbon Copy Cloner. Read more about it here:
http://www.bombich.com/groups/ccc/wiki/7ba51/Improvements_to_Backup_Bouncer.html