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XXX The above information is old, point to newer porting efforts?

-Although some windows filesystems lack features like fifos, case +

Although some Windows filesystems lack features like FIFOs, case sensitive filenames, or files with colons (“:”) in them, this should -be autodetected and compensated for by rdiff-backup. +be autodetected and compensated for by rdiff-backup.

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Does rdiff-backup run under Mac OS X? –

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Does rdiff-backup run under Mac OS X? – –

-Yes, but there may be some issues installing librsync. See this -message from Gerd Knops: +

Yes, but there may be some issues installing librsync. The easiest +option is probably to use Fink http://fink.sourceforge.net/, +which can install rdiff-backup automatically for you.