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31 years ago
Rafael:  Thank you very much, I was having a huge headache to solve the very same problem!
37 years ago
Ray:  Having the same problem. Very frustrating. Luckily, for some reason my released version worked on the iPad itself, but now I can't get it to run in the simulator. Getting no such table, which I'm guessing is an initialization error. Will continue to investigate.
38 years ago
Jeremy:  FYI, I've just tried it with the SQLite 3.7.0 preview and the same problem occurs.
Also, I'm not using any extra third-party libraries with my SQLite, so the problem isn't your Unicode extension.
38 years ago
Jeremy:  I'm having the same problem with compiling SQLite against iOS 4 for the iPad simulator, but in my case it works fine running on an actual iPad (also works in the iPhone simulator and on an iPod Touch).
Same problem with 3.6.23.1, 3.6.23, and at least back to 3.6.21. Compiling against iOS 3.2 makes it work, though that's not really an option for iPhone (as opposed to iPad) apps.
I have no idea what to do about it or how big a problem it really is...
38 years ago
Pascal:  The problem seems to have deep roots, however there is a solution, see the updated post. :)
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Automated snapshot backups using rsync and launchd over ssh

Monday, October 5th 2009 - 18:46
I needed to backup the contents of a file sharing directory of a server in our LAN to the shiny new mirrored 1 TB RAID inside my Mac Pro. Having a simple backup is nice, but it's even better to have snapshots, with the possibility to jump back to any date and have the exact representation of the disk as it was back then (TimeMachine also does this pretty well for Macs).

Always creating a complete backup would be a waste of disk space par excellence and in my case - backup via LAN - also pretty hard on the network. Fortunately there is rsync, and there's our friends ssh and launchd. rsync takes advantage of *NIX file system hardlinks and when called with the right arguments only backs up new files since the last backup, pointing to the older copy of a file if the file has not changed in the meantime. Mike Rubel has written up a nice article covering these aspects of rsync, check it out.
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