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This document be able to serve as a guide for programmers needing something of an entré into the source code but the primary purpose is to give the reader a foundation from which he may understand why rsync behaves as it does, the limitations of rsync and why a requested feature is unsuited to the code-base.

Before looking ahead to what's coming, it's important first to look back. And that means a quick refresher course on Retrospect, a mainstay of the Apple community since Mac OS 7 was hosting e-mail, files and FileMaker databases. The venerable app had solid features and drivers for a fairly large subset of tape libraries. Unfortunately, it peaked in the late 1990s around Version 4.3, long before the introduction of Mac OS X in 2001. Since then, it's been in a steady decline.